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.
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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Lois and David’s story
We still get people asking us ‘Are you going to tell him that he’s adopted?’ and we tell them we’ve already told him. Before we started the process, we knew…
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Eddie’s story
We interviewed Eddie one afternoon on Zoom to gain some insight into the pros and cons of adopting siblings. How was parenting during the Covid lockdown? Our children always went…
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Tim and Sara’s story
Tim and Sara were in their early forties when they first considered adopting and were eventually approved for a sibling group of three when they were 42 and 43 years…
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Henrietta’s story
Our very own adopter Henrietta talks to the #YouCanAdopt team about her adoption story. Henrietta and her husband Deji had been married for 15 years and had tried IVF…
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Jennifer’s story
The #YouCanAdopt campaign talks to Jennifer, as she share’s her adoption story. Following fertility issues, Jennifer who is Black British of Caribbean decent and her husband who is…
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