“‘Oh wow, so we’ll be like normal children’, and it suddenly dawned, dawned on me that our children didn’t feel at that point that they were like all the other children because normal children don’t have a social worker and don’t have to have a”
“Adoption is adoption and that child has the same status as a child who is born to you, birth parents can’t ask for them back and in just the same way, you have a right to get on with your own life, so yes you can have relationships, social services have”
“But we went in and they were asleep and their beds were next to each other with their arms round each other. And that was fantastic to see and now they’re best friends.”
“ And the younger girl too. She, she often cuddles us and says ‘I love you’ and that’s... In fact, although I, I’ve spoken about them having a lot of behavioural problems, in some ways they are quite loving, and very polite and quite perfect childr”