Nickey and Tony, Fiona, Roddy and Alex, Kim, Segun and Seyi , and Kerry and Amerjeet
“I didn’t think we had a chance actually of adopting when I first started, I thought, ‘Well, you know, we were…I was too old or…”
“And I was actually surprised at how much…how well Sandra knew me by the end of the process.”
“As it went on, it felt like free counseling a little bit rather than… people sort of probing and us getting defensive”
“And so it’s a wonderful process to explore both your own history as a child and what you’d like to continue in the parenting and what you’d like to do differently.”
“...you had to start digging in to issues that probably as a person you haven’t dealt with before in the past – but I think the advantage for us is that we went in to the whole process with the attitude that we would do whatever we needed to do to adop”
“ Because there are so many mixed race children waiting for adoption once we were sort of approved as adopters, the child had already been chosen”