37,32. Same-sex adopters of two brothers.
How was it when you first met your child/ren?
“And the questions got progressively deeper, and you were thinking OK so this is from a seven and eight year old and then came the jaw-dropping question, “Do you two sleep together?” ”
Does your child have contact with their birth family?
“...they will naturally type in birth families details at some point and find them, so it is a worry now for us and I don’t really think it is so much of a worry as when they are eighteen…”
What is the hardest thing about adopting?
“...you are always told – don’t over-compensate for their past but it is always in the back of your mind that they have been through such difficult times, that now when they fall on hard times you try and soften it a little bit for them.”
How did you and social services deal with you being same-sex adopters?
“oh Dad I haven’t told them that we are G A Y yet and we have had a whole conversation about well actually you are not, but me and Daddy are, so he is kind of coming to terms with that,”
