What adopters and children say

"Adopting my daughter's been the best decision I've ever made"

TACT Adopter, Bernadette explains how adoption changed her life forever. Adopting her daughter's made Bernadette open her eyes to the needs of children in care.

In 2010, over 30% of children on the adoption register were of black origin; many more need loving families.

Would you like to adopt a child as Bernadette and change your life and theirs forever? Look no further, you can contact us through many ways:

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The Future. A Shared Beginning

To coincide with National Adoption Week (1-7 November 2010), TACT launched its own campaign 'The Future. A Shared Beginning' to promote the urgent need for more adopters. We spoke to TACT adopter Andrei Wiltshire about what he thought of adoption. Watch his interview here:

 

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"Our dream is to adopt siblings"

Civil partners Paul, 34, and Chris, 35, hope to be cleared for adoption early in the new year:

"We both always wanted children so we started to talk about it not long after we got together. After we got married we looked at surrogacy, the possibility of co-parenting and international adoption, but we both felt there were so many children here that needed a family, that we'd like to pursue local adoption. I liked the idea of a baby or toddler as I felt this would minimise the impact of trauma and neglect a child had suffered, though Chris really felt that a baby needs a mother.

But when we started talking to the local authorities, we were told that as a same sex couple, any single, young child, was unlikely to ever happen for us. So we had to open our minds to a different story, a different family, and the adoption agency helped us to think about whether we could actually manage older children or siblings or children whose parents were drug or alcohol users. This whole assessment process has taken nearly a year but we're nearly there and our dream is to adopt two siblings, which is a huge shift from where we started."

"He feels like our son more and more each day"

Karen, 45 and Craig, 40, adopted William, nine, in 2007 

"I suffered two miscarriages when we were trying for a baby and couldn't face going through that again so we decided against IVF and started exploring adoption. We never felt the need to have a baby but we wanted a toddler because we thought a younger child would have been through less trauma. But as we worked with TACT we realised that we could manage an older child and we learnt to accept that any child we adopted would have special needs and attachment issues. William came to us after years of being moved between his parents, drug users, his grandparents and foster care, so he had a lot of loss in his life. But when we looked at him in a video his foster carers had made, nothing they told us about his anger and behavioural problems could put us off. When I look at him now, I can't believe how much he's moved on: he's making friends, he feels like my son more and more each day. He's still not able to talk about his birth family, but I'm hoping this third Christmas together will be a turning point." 

Both testimonials were published in The Independent on Sunday 8 November 2009 for the start of the 2009 National Adoption Week.