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It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. Nearly 70, children are in care in the UK, and there is a desperate need for short term and permanent loving homes. Senior report Flora Thompson speaks to a gay couple who decided to adopt.
They then met with the Diagrama Foundation to find a child they could offer a loving home. They have plans to marry later this year and said the transition to parenthood could not have felt more natural. It is evident the pair love being parents and adore Jack - they talk animatedly about the fun they together on trips, particularly to adventure playgrounds and National Trust properties. Adam, 33, said: "Once we arrived at a park for a day out and he said 'daddy I love it so much here, it's so beautiful, can we come back again?
And he gets an interest in science and computer games from me. He has made lots of friends - an amazing group of friends actually. This all helps him to grow in confidence which helps him to deal with his past. They had been building up to adopt and winding down their social activities accordingly in preparation to becoming parents - they made sure they were in a financial position to do so and had a comfortable, welcoming home to offer. Adam said: "We didn't know much about adoption. The whole process was such a mystery to begin with but Diagrama has been so helpful and reassuring. We have a case worker and there was a lot of training but we were prepared.
We felt they were focussed on the long game, to match the right parents with the right child to give them a forever home. David said the first time they met Jack - in part of the selection process where they stay with the foster family's home for a week before the child comes to live with them - was emotionally intense. He said: "You could tell the foster family genuinely loved him and were sad to see him go - they said goodbye to him one by one.
They were in tears and Jack didn't really know what was happening. That made me really emotional too.
Adam said: "We had been building up to the point where we were meeting our child and there was this excitement, but you also realising how confusing and uncertain this must be for the child. They do not deny the situation is without its problems, but they take the process in their stride. David said: "For the first few months he was a bit uncertain, there was a tantrum once a week.
He hasn't had a tantrum since then. But when it was time to go again he came to us, that really meant a lot. We began to wind down our social life before to prepare to look after a child. Adam said: "We have learnt that an adopted child can worry about a lot of things. They could spend the whole day worrying about if they will come home to find you have been taken away from them. Falkland Islands.
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