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…
“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…
“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…
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…