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Our adopters below have shared their real stories about their own personal adoption journey.

Adopter Stories

Adopters are from a wide variety of backgrounds, cultures, ages, ethnicities, as unique and diverse as the children currently waiting for adoption. There is no ‘perfect’ adopter. What they all have in common is the time, commitment, stability and love in their lives to offer a child or children.

Emily & Ben

Emily and Ben felt Fostering For Adoption was the right route for them…   Emily and Ben always knew th...

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Graham’s story

To celebrate his 50th birthday, adopter Graham Jump wanted to do something a little different and decided t...

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Adam & Jess

Adam & Jess

An adoption journey through the Concurrent Planning Service Adam and I first started looking into adoption ...

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The bright eyed boy who would become my precious, beautiful son.

The bright eyed boy who would become my precious, beautiful son.

It is my eighteenth anniversary of being a mummy. This time in 1999 I was desperately waiting for my first ...

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Helen & Simone

Simone and I had been together about 3 years when we started our adoption journey. We had both always known...

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Michael and Les

Michael and Les

Les and I both met while working overseas as holiday reps over 17 years ago, after 3 years travelling we de...

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