Adoption in Focus

• Adoption in Focus - Sunny’s Story: Blending Cultures, Honouring Faith

  In this episode, we sit down with Sunny, a Sikh mother whose path to adoption led her to embrace a love that transcends cultural boundaries. With remarkable honesty and warmth, Sunny shares her journey from the initial doubts and fears about how her decision might be received within her community, to the powerful support she found along the way. She opens up about what it means to honour her Sikh faith while welcoming a child from a different heritage, and how this experience has deepened both her spiritual and personal identity.

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• Adoption in Focus - Jonathan's Journey - Navigating life together into adulthood.

  In this heartfelt episode, we sit down with Jonathan, a father who shares his family's powerful adoption journey from the early conversations and assessment process to welcoming his son James home and navigating life together into adulthood.With honesty and warmth, Jonathan reflects on the challenges, triumphs, and lasting impact of adoption. Whether you're exploring adoption or well along the path, his story offers comfort, insight, and inspiration.We hope you enjoy this episode. If you have any topics you'd like us to cover or you have a story to share please get in touch: [email protected] 

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• Adoption in Focus - Amy and Andy - What it means to parent a child they have transracially adopted.

   In this episode of Adoption in Focus, Lisa sits down with Amy and Andy, a couple with four birth children who chose to grow their family through adoption.They share their unique journey of adopting their youngest son at 18 months old, offering heartfelt insights into the adoption process, how they supported their birth children throughout, and what it means to parent a child they have transracially adopted.We hope this episode encourages reflection on how we can all celebrate and champion a child’s ethnicity, culture, and heritage. 

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• Adoption In Focus - Ben and Aaron's Journey and adopting as LGBTQ+

  In this episode, we're joined by a brilliant same-sex couple who speak candidly about their journey to becoming dads, from the first steps in the adoption process, the highs and lows, what family life looks like for them now, and their love for their son.  They tell their story with equal parts of honesty and humour in a conversation that's funny, moving and refreshingly real. 

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• Adoption in Focus - Sarah's journey as a single adopter

  In our latest episode Leigh is joined by Sarah, an adoptive mom of two who talks to us about her adoption experiences, right from the moment she decided to adopt to now being used as a bouncy castle by her two children.   Sarah paints an honest picture of the adoption process and parenting, full of ups and downs but the rewards endless. 

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