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Is it rare to adopt a newborn ?

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Mozzarellapie · 12/07/2023 22:34

I have always heard it’s rare to adopt a newborn in the U.K for various reasons . Haven’t thought much more about it till I saw a post today on IG where someone has adopted a newborn baby and it just made me think maybe it’s more common now ?

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TastesLikeStrawberriesOnASummerEvening · 13/07/2023 20:32

From the little I know, I was fostered as a newborn, then adopted, but foster parents and adoptive parents were different.
I was given up voluntarily, but this was 46 years ago.
It absolutely has a negative effect, even though I'm fully in support of it.

Ameanstreakamilewide · 13/07/2023 20:51

Upandonward · 12/07/2023 22:44

A friend met her future DS in the neonatal unit when he was two weeks old and fostered him until the adoption went through when he was just over a year old. It was a new process in their area called something like foster-to-adoption. The baby was removed from the birth parents in the hospital and I think was the third or fourth child they had had removed and adopted (due to drug addiction).

Those poor children. That pair of feckless arseholes should be sterilised.

Upandonward · 13/07/2023 21:10

@SkinnyMalinkyLankyLegs the boy would be about 12-13 years old now. They moved abroad when he was about 3 and we’ve lost touch but he was a handful back then.

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Mozzarellapie · 14/07/2023 14:33

I’ve unfollowed her today as tbh it’s just like a series of adverts for baby things and it’s a shame as she had a platform and could have had content about fostering /adoption but no it’s just all about the ‘stuff’ so it feels really shallow and I’ve unfollowed

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