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.