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.
Margaret’s 1971 adoption story
How did you feel when you first discovered you were pregnant? I first discovered I was pregnant during a holiday to Jersey with my friend, Gladys, in October 1970.
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Orla’s story
“I have no childhood memories of my birth mother. I know that she couldn’t take care of us and left us with friends a lot. We were in and out…
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Ikemba and Funmi’s story
We started trying for a baby in 2009 but by New Year’s Eve I was feeling despondent but my husband Ikemba said that 2010 would be our year. Little did…
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Evan’s story 2
I watch as all the other dads stand at the sidelines of mini-football cheering on their kids, shouting out advice – it’s all like some foreign Attenborough documentary. I…
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Evan’s story
It was at a food shop. (It’s almost always at a food shop, get ready.) My partner and son were filling a basket with reduced-price Ben & Jerry’s. I wasn’t…
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Selwyn and Jade’s story
We started to think about adopting when we had been happily married, without kids, for about 15 years. To begin with, we thought we’d want to consider adopting older children…
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