Dave’s story

A Friend offers a personal insight into adoption

A Friend offers a personal insight into adoption | Photo: HogueLikeWoah / flickr CC.

Dave (not his real name) was twenty minutes old when he ‘lost’ his parents. Social services took him into care at birth. I won’t say why, but you don’t have to be a genius to work out there were serious protection issues involved. By the time he was two months old he was on his third set of parents; at six months he was put into long-term foster care with the fourth – people who, a year later, adopted him and his elder brother.

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