This episode explores why children require adoption in the 2020s to help anyone thinking about adopting understand the kind of issues adopted children face.

Every child who is adopted experiences trauma as a result of being removed from their birth parents. But the family circumstances that led to the removal can also create trauma which is something prospective adopters need to be aware of so they can decided whether the process is how they want to become parents.

You can read articles about the adoption process including interviews with adopters, adoptees and birth parents in We Made a Wish adoption and parenting magazine.

The Wish Adoption Podcast is for anyone thinking about adopting in England and Wales.

The episodes take you through the adoption process, why children need adoption, making sure it's for you, looking at the assessment process and what it involves, and busting some myths about who can apply.

Your host is Suzy Stanton, a mum via adoption to two beautiful sisters who grew in her heart four years apart. Suzy is a copywriter and the creator and editor of We Made a Wish adoption and parenting magazine.