Nickey and Tony, Fiona, Sarah, Julie and Nick, Lucy B, Kim, Jacqui and Robert, Segun and Seyi , Kerry and Amerjeet, Hina Rajan, Diane and James, Collette and Adam, Robert and Marilyn, and Oona
“I was adopted when I was 6 weeks old, and ever since I was a teenager I decided that I would adopt.”
“when I wasn’t very successful with various relationships I just decided I wanted to adopt ”
“...you just have to draw a line with that sometimes and move on and that’s what we decided to do”
“So, we looked into the possibilities of adoption and when we started actually going through the process we’d – we actually decided that that was the best solution. That was exactly what we wanted. And actually almost became a preference, didn’t it f”
“ I learnt all about adoption and the fact I could adopt despite being single and also I could give up work and there would be an adoption allowance to help me adopt.”
“...it’s very important not to adopt because you couldn’t conceive… as the sole reason. It’s, it’s no substitute for child birth but it’s an amazing experience on its own.”
“It was better for her to be adopted rather - to have a mummy and daddy rather than have guardians for the rest of her life, which was the decision to go ahead and adopt. ”
“...we couldn’t have a kids of our own and then maybe adoption was a way to go to achieve our purpose. ”
“...we had a baby that was stillborn and we had several miscarriages as well. We’d decided that originally we were going to foster as we didn’t think we could adopt birth children and we went through the fostering process, got to the end of the process”
“ ...it was harder to conceive naturally. We went down the IVF route for about four years and were unsuccessful so adoption seemed to be the next step. ”
“...we went through years of infertility treatment and… decided right early on that if things didn’t work out then we would try to adopt and decided to be placed on a waiting list”
“So it was just really because we didn’t want our son to be an only child.”
“When the youngest of our oldest children went off to university, Marilyn got a very bad case of empty nest syndrome. ”
“...adoption seemed like a way of getting a baby instead of getting a bill”