Married. 50 and 63. Adopters.
“I was adopted when I was 6 weeks old, and ever since I was a teenager I decided that I would adopt.”
How did you find the process of being approved?
“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…”
How were you matched with your child?
“We’re foster carers so we’ve had lots of children over the years, we’ve been fostering for ten years, and these two children arrived three and a half years ago and we just can’t part with them.”
How was it when you first met your child/ren?
“she’d obviously been very well prepared by her foster carer and it was ‘Hi mum and dad, you’re late!’ ”
Do you think you can love an adopted child in the same way people love a birth child?
“I forget that I didn’t have her when she was a baby”
Has your adopted child started to question his/her identity?
“They’ve had a past life, they want to talk about their birth parents, and their families, and what they had for Christmas or where they went to see fireworks, or what school they went to. You can’t just cut that off.”
