Miranda and Marie-Louise were colleagues but it was only days before Miranda left to go on adoption leave that they found out that they were both adopting. “It’s that kind of process that you don’t massively talk about because you never know when it’s going to happen, or how, and so you keep it to yourself. It’s not like when you have your birth child and everyone can see you getting bigger and bigger. I remember telling my colleagues two weeks before I left”.
If you are not an adopter you cannot fully understand what the adoption journey is like. As with most things in life, you need to go through it, to really get it. There are so many assumptions about adoption that are at best, misplaced, and at worst, harmful.
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One adoptive parent shares the complexities of integrating with non-adopters and the importance of finding allies
We Are Family’s Response to the Children’s Social Care Implementation Strategy Consultation
Exciting updates for families within Bexley, Kent and Medway…
Exciting updates for families within Bexley, Kent and Medway…
We Are Family’s Key Messages and Recommendations for the Care Review
We Are Family members often tell us that the future of post-adoption support is a key concern, and an issue on which they would like us to advocate on their behalf.
We Are Family share our views on the early plans for the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care and offers support in gathering insights to inform the review and shape recommendations.
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