What is Adoption?
Adoption is where you provide a permanent new family for a child or children. This can be a single child or a sibling group. You become their legal parents, with the same rights and responsibilities as if they were born to you.Adoption is a life long commitment and it's one of the most positive and rewarding things you can do. The child will call you mum and dad or equivalent in his or her own language.
There is a shortfall nationally in adopters from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, and many children and sibling groups spend long periods in foster care waiting for the right family that can meet their needs.
All kinds of children need adoptive families, from toddlers to teenagers, disabled and non-disabled children. The vast majority of children placed with adoptive families are under the age of five. Children from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds would benefit from being placed with families from their own cultural and religious backgrounds. There will be a child who is right for you and you for them.
Many of these youngsters will have had a difficult start in life but they all have one thing in common. That is they want to be loved and needed, and to be part of a loving, family home.
