The difficulties involved within the adoption experience can begin very early in the process.
Recent figures reveal that adoptions are down which could be for a number of reasons, including the administrative challenges caused by the pandemic and the restrictions of prospective adopters meeting and visiting children in their foster homes or previous high profile rulings which favour birth parents even when there appears to be evidence of abuse and neglect.
Another potential reason is the level of support many children who are currently placed for adoption (and their new parents) require, which is significantly higher than it was even 10 years ago.
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