The pain and joy of adopting as a gay couple: ‘The tendrils of hope we’d put out fell away’

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The pain and joy of adopting as a gay couple: ‘The tendrils of hope we’d put out fell away’
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The pain and joy of adopting as a gay couple ✍️ 🔵 Catherine Riley and her partner were approved to adopt in February but the joy of welcoming a child has meant much disappointment and learning to roll with the unexpected.

It is hard – actually, it’s impossible – to feel happy when your hopes, your dreams, are predicated on someone else’s pain. No matter what the story is behind a child being taken into care, there will always be pain. There will necessarily be trauma. And in the middle of all that, life-changing and difficult choices have to be made quickly in order that the child’s needs, not ours, are put first.

It had already taken two years for us to get to the interview that brought us ‘approved’ status. In that time, we undertook training,

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