What is Adoption?
Adoption is making a life long commitment to a child or children, with the same legal rights and parental responsibilities as a parent with a birth child or children.
Once all the legal processes of adoption have occurred (including what is called ‘The Adoption Order’) they are irreversible.
When you adopt with Together4Children, we match this commitment with lifelong support and training available to you and the children.
Children can require adoption for different reasons. Most often the courts have decided that the child’s birth parents are unable to provide a safe and permanent home for the child or children. These decisions are not taken likely and many assessments and support will have occurred prior to this final outcome.
This means that sadly many children who require adoption will have experienced abuse, neglect in their lives. All will have experienced a level of disruption and uncertainty.
This is why our support and training for new adopters is key in understanding approaches to parenting that can help children to positively develop and thrive.
Adoption is bringing a vulnerable child or children into your home and giving them the love, care and nurture that they deserve, for life.
As you would therefore expect, our assessment and matching processes are robust, and require a committed approach from potential adopters, working with us to ensure the best short and long term outcomes are achieved for children and their adoptive families.
Many people find adoption a very positive journey into the world of parenting with all the challenges and joys that brings.
Knowing that you have given a child or children the experience of a positive childhood, being part of a loving, secure and caring family, are among the best rewards life can offer!
What is the difference between fostering and adoption?
Adoption
Adoption is a legal process by which a child becomes a full member of a new family, with the adoptive parents assuming all parental responsibilities.
Fostering
Fostering is a temporary arrangement where a child lives with a family until circumstances enable the child to return to their own family, to live independently, or placed for special guardianship or adoption.
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