The finding - released recently by the British Association for Adoption& Fostering - has been accompanied by a concern that applications foroverseas adoption may now start taking precedence over domesticadoptions (Children Now, 8-14 November).
If this happens, it could leave the UK's 4,000 vulnerable children whoneed adopting each year without the opportunity of a stable familyenvironment. Last week's National Adoption Week was therefore a welcomeopportunity to focus attention on this issue.
The NCH launched a campaign attempting to dispel the many mythssurrounding eligibility and to try to recruit people from a wide varietyof backgrounds.
It set out to encourage unmarried couples, and those over 40,unemployed, single, disabled, Black, Asian or homosexual to come forwardand find out more. The campaign was based on findings of a pollconducted by ICM Research for NCH, where more than two-thirds of the1,000 adults polled thought that being too old was a barrier. More thanhalf thought you had to be employed, and almost 40 per cent thought youcould not be single or have a disability.
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