Kerry, Angelina, Lucy B, Zoe, and Bridget mention adoptive parents
How did it feel having your child taken into care?
“I sat outside the hospital for twenty four hours hoping to catch his parents walking in and out. But of course I wouldn’t know who they were”
How have your adoptive parents embraced your heritage?
“And we’re still really, really close now and to me they are my mum and dad. But… I can appreciate that, for some cultures, and certainly some kind of ethnicities, it would be easier to, sort of, be raised within that kind of culture.”
How is it adopting a child with special needs?
“I can’t imagine that I do feel less close to my children or less fond of them because they are adopted, they are very wonderful people and they have taught me a lot about being a mother and they have needed me in that way,”
How did your adoptive parents help you to come to terms with being adopted?
“but I think in my experience no matter how much they loved me there was still always some sort of gap or emptiness”
What are you looking for in potential adopters?
“...who have the capacity to reflect on their own lives and the way they have been parented, it goes without saying that they actually enjoy the company of children.”
How do you tell a child they are going to be adopted?
“...if you are saying you are going to have a new mummy and daddy they expect it to happen tomorrow, so you have to be very careful about how you share information with children”