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Adoption Stories

The best examples of the families and children we’ve matched are when they share their personal journeys in their own words, so here we tell some of the stories of real-life adoptive families. They share from the very start of their journeys through to the experience of assessments, matching, and parenting.

2nd time adopters Choir LGBT

Conversations with Tom

Tom and his husband Dan adopted their son about 2 years ago. Family life is busy and has its challenges, but it is also everything they hoped it would be. …

Intercountry Transracial

Intercountry and transracial adoption

Adopt London South recently had the pleasure of talking to Dominic about his experience of being adopted and brought to the UK as a baby. After more than a decade…

LGBT Siblings

Adopting three siblings

My partner and I knew that adoption was our preferred route to having a family and having talked to other adopters from the LGBTQ+ community, we could see that it…

Early Permanence

An early permanence story

We thought that as we had two of our own birth children that Early Permanence was not be something that we would be able to manage. It was our social…

Adopted Adult Birth family

Toni’s story

“I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t in foster care for at least some of the time. I was first placed in care when I was about one. At…

BME

Rosaline and Robert’s story

Rosaline had a child from a previous relationship but after recently getting married, we wanted a child of our own. We had looked into a number of different options including…

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