Adoption is just one of the many routes that prospective parents (queer or otherwise) can take to form a family. But it is not aways seen as a first option with many choosing to opt for surrogacy, in ...

A huge increase in IVF use among British couples has caused adoption rates to plummet, even as the number of children in care remains at record highs. Three-parent babies: what you need to know about ...

Adoption agencies and social workers say government guidance has done nothing to tackle issues such as the systemic delays and problematic post-adoption support which is leading to high rates of ...

In the UK we adopt more children against the birth parent's wishes than any other European state. This partly reflects a shift in government policy. In the 2000s New Labour backed investment in ...

Friends of mine, ­after a decade of ­trying, sadly failed to have children. Adoption was their last hope of becoming parents, but the ­process in this country is so grindingly slow and uncertain they ...