Adopting a hurt child

Imagine you had been abused or neglected by the people who were supposed to love you the most. How might you try and protect yourself? Would you shout, cry, act out?

Trauma changes everything. It changes the way the children interact with those around them, the way they view adults, the way they need to be parented.

Most of the time, adoption isn't about babies. Adoption today means creating a loving family that could keep a traumatised child safe from becoming an adult in prison, on the streets or on drugs. This is a huge challenge. But it's also an incredibly rewarding way of becoming a parent.

And you'll be backed up every step of the way by i-Adopt. If you need them, you can be supplied with:

• Parent Mentors
• Social Workers
• Therapists
• Paediatrician
• Child Psychiatrist
• Educational Psychologist
• Paediatric Occupational Therapist
• Nutritionist
• Specialist Teacher

We will give you all the support you need to make your family work, and give a hurt child a future built on security and love.

“And you realize that, if we couldn’t have managed, our daughter might have been raised in a Children’s Home. She deserves much better than that. Now you can see her real personality coming out, and she’s shining.”

Could you make this difference to a child’s life?