Being Asian and Christian meant there weren’t any matches for Ranji and her husband when they first tried to adopt. But they persevered and were given a son and daughter. She talks us through the gruelling process, difficult early days and their more recent relocation to Paris…
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“I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about his race. To me, he’s just my super freakin’ cute kid… but I’ll never be able to relate to how it feels growing up a black child in a white home.” Leah Sannar on interracial adoption…
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“The door opened and in walked a huge bunch of flowers. As they tottered towards me, I could see my daughter underneath and she said ‘flowers for my mummy.’ Even now hearing those words makes me cry.” Emma Sutton on becoming an adoptive parent…
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“My parents weren’t happy when they found out about me trying to contact my birth parents. I think they thought it was a betrayal.” In an honest and moving account, Jody Thompson describes how it feels to be adopted as a baby and rejected by her birth mother…
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For every baby sling or item of clothing they sell, American brand Rockin’ Baby donate one to a mother-in-need. We speak to CEO and mother-of-six Kathryn Johnson Wiley about work life, home life and choosing to adopt two of her children…