Are you one of the many who want to be a parent but are finding it difficult to conceive? Or maybe you have a child of your own but long to add to your family as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have done?
This week’s National Adoption Week not only raises the plight of children waiting for adoption. It also highlights potential parents hoping to start a family through adoption.
At this week’s Fertility Show, nearly 4,000 visitors are expected to attend, looking for solutions to help overcome their infertility. IVF is often a route many go down. But not everyone succeeds in having their own children.
For those who don’t, adoption is another way forward. At this week’s show, visitors will hear a talk from the London Borough of Brent Adoption Team about exactly what’s involved. With 64,000 children in care in the UK, it would seem like an obvious route.
But many are daunted by newspaper headlines of an over complicated system in the UK with three year delays and intense scrutiny. For some, adopting abroad offers a more compelling solution. This year the show also features a talk from Cecile Trijssenaar, who adopted her son from Russia and who now advises other parents how to do so.
The Fertility Show backs the government’s aims of making adoption in the UK more accessible. With 1 in 6 couples facing infertility at some stage in their lives, there would appear to be huge source of potential adopters if processes can be simplified.
The Fertility Show is backed by leading patient care charity, Infertility Network UK
– It takes place at London’s Olympia Exhibition Centre, Hammersmith, on Friday and Saturday Nov 4-5, 2011. Admission price £10 in advance, £14 on the door. Seats in seminars £1.
Have you adopted a child from the UK or abroad? How easy did you find the process of adoption? Or have you been turned down for adoption for some reason which you feel is unfair? If you feel your real life story about adoption might be suitable for a newspaper or magazine, send your adoption story here: My adoption story
