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- 🇬🇧GB · Parenting#9330K to 100K
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It's been everything we wanted, and more!
Jun 24, 2026
27m 47s
119 - Transracially adopted siblings three years in
May 27, 2026
27m 51s
120 - A rocky road to adoption
May 13, 2026
36m 35s
118 - Be assertive!
Apr 29, 2026
31m 17s
117 - Everything went wrong in family finding but we're going to matching panel tomorrow!
Apr 1, 2026
49m 42s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/24/26 |  It's been everything we wanted, and more! | Ross used to listen to this podcast and wonder how his own adoption journey might go, especially since his agency was concerned he didn't have enough childcare experience. A year later, he had his one-year-old son and he's loving every minute of it! | 27m 47s | ||||||
| 5/27/26 | 119 - Transracially adopted siblings three years in✨ | transracial adoptionsiblings+3 | Aubrey | — | schoolfuture+1 | transracial adoptionsiblings+3 | — | 27m 51s | |
| 5/13/26 | 120 - A rocky road to adoption✨ | adoptionIVF+4 | Laura | — | — | adoptionIVF+5 | — | 36m 35s | |
| 4/29/26 | 118 - Be assertive!✨ | adoptionparenting+3 | Yannick | New Family Social | — | adoptionassertiveness+3 | — | 31m 17s | |
| 4/1/26 | 117 - Everything went wrong in family finding but we're going to matching panel tomorrow!✨ | adoptionfamily finding+3 | — | adoption agencysummer camp | — | adoptionfamily finding+3 | — | 49m 42s | |
| 2/18/26 | 116 - My children meet their birth parents for contact✨ | birth parentsfamily contact+3 | Jake | — | — | birth familiesface-to-face contact+3 | — | 36m 33s | |
| 2/4/26 | 115 - First anniversary of our son coming home✨ | adoptionparenting+3 | StuartBradley | — | — | adoptionparenting+4 | — | 36m 28s | |
| 1/21/26 | 114 - Having Complex PTSD helps me support my adopted kids.✨ | Complex PTSDadoption+4 | Seren | NHSSamaritans | — | Complex PTSDadoption+4 | — | 49m 40s | |
| 1/7/26 | 113 - Our kids are diagnosed now✨ | additional needssupport process+3 | StuartSimon | Disney princess | — | additional needssupport+4 | — | 40m 57s | |
| 12/17/25 | 112 - A newborn baby through Early Permanence✨ | Early Permanenceadoption+3 | GeorgeStuart | New Family Social | — | Early Permanenceadoption+3 | — | 35m 56s | |
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| 12/3/25 | 111 - Adopting an older child after encountering homophobia✨ | adoptionolder children+3 | AlexPeter | — | — | adoptionolder child+3 | — | 41m 57s | |
| 11/19/25 | 110 - "I fostered the child you adopted" | Vivienne has been a foster carer for eight years. An eight month old baby called Bill was placed with her, initially for just a week, but he ended up staying for nearly two years. In the meantime, in another part of the country, Carlos and his partner were talking about adopting. They had a bad experience with their first agency but changed to another and were approved. Browsing Linkmaker, they saw Bill's profile and hoped he might be the child for them. On this podcast, Vivienne and Carlos talk about how their paths met when Carlos adopted Bill. | 46m 33s | ||||||
| 11/5/25 | 109 - Going to approval panel for early permanence | Emily and Jude have completed their assessment process and have just seven days until panel. They're hoping to be approved as early permanence carers for a baby under a year old. Emily talks about how they decided on adoption and what they learnt as volunteers at New Family Social's Summer Camp (including mud pie recipes!). Emily talked about how she listened to other episodes of this podcast to help her decide whether she could cope with the uncertainty of early permanence. | 36m 15s | ||||||
| 10/22/25 | 108 - "Adopting my son made me a better person". | Fay talks about adopting her two-year-old son after three rounds of IVF, including one miscarriage. She had heard about how much longer black children wait for adoptive families and felt that adoption would be the right way to parenthood for her. Family life has brought Fay and her wife so much happiness and she talks about the importance of play and the need for patience! | 35m 39s | ||||||
| 10/8/25 | 107 - "We're having the time of our lives!" | Monty and his husband were approved for Early Permanence and had a tiny baby placed with them. Just a couple of months later, they were asked if they'd adopt the baby's older sibling. Monty talks about delays in their assessment process, becoming a parent twice in less than six months, and how much joy their children have brought them. Monty recommends this book: Undertaking an adoption assessment in England | 28m 10s | ||||||
| 9/23/25 | 106 - Bi-erasure in the adoption process | Oliver returns to the podcast to talk about how he navigated the adoption process (including some ill-informed questions) as a bisexual man. He discusses his journey to positively identify as bisexual, and also brings us up-to-date on life with his four-year-old son. Their previous podcast can be found here Episode 97 | 33m 17s | ||||||
| 9/10/25 | 105 - Adoption, Fostering and Tea - Live at Summer Camp | This episode of Adoption, Fostering and Tea was recorded live at our annual summer camp for LGBTQ adoption and fostering families, taking questions from our audience. | 34m 12s | ||||||
| 8/27/25 | 104 - Adopting an older child as older adopters | Robin and James were in their late 40s when they decided it was time to adopt. They talk about how they overcame the negative messages they'd received, as children, about gay people. They discuss their decision to adopt an older child, why they'd recommend this to others, and how they helped their son when he faced homophobic bullying. | 42m 25s | ||||||
| 8/13/25 | 103 - Newly diagnosed autistic adopter | Archie was diagnosed as autistic during the adoption assessment process. Tor and Archie talk about what it's like to learn you're autistic and the strengths it brings the as parents. | 35m 50s | ||||||
| 7/30/25 | 102 - I researched adoption for ten years before I took the first step. | Carlos has wanted children since he was 17. He started researching adoption in his mid-twenties and, ten years later, he's stuck in stage one but excited about his future as a single adopter for one or two children. | 31m 37s | ||||||
| 7/16/25 | 101 - Our foster-to-adopt baby spent weeks in intensive care. | Charlie and Ben had said they felt unable to take a child with complex medical needs but when their daughter was born and taken straight to intensive care, they knew they wanted to make it work. They talk about early contact sessions and the toll they took. They also talk about their family's delight in meeting the new baby and how much joy she's brought into their lives. | 30m 10s | ||||||
| 7/2/25 | 100 - Adopting in the Public Eye | On our 100th episode, Miles and Pip talk openly about the process of adopting their daughters and Miles tells us about being best known for "poisoning" a fellow contestant, in front of seven million people, on the hit BBC TV show Traitors! Traitors Season Two | 1h 00m 03s | ||||||
| 6/18/25 | 99 - I've been an adoptive dad for over a decade. | Peter and Tor adopted their children over a decade ago and they talk about what it's like to parent teens. They also share what they've learnt along the way and what they wish they'd known when they started out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLuEY6jN6gY | 39m 03s | ||||||
| 6/4/25 | 98 - Adoption with a Trans History | Max and his husband adopted their son just over a year ago. Max was concerned about the assessment process because he has a trans history and has anxiety. Luckily, they had an awesome social worker who made things as easy as possible. Max talks about the joys (and tiredness!) of parenting. | 34m 00s | ||||||
| 5/21/25 | 97 - Without the New Family Social Summer Camp we wouldn't have our son! | Adam and Oliver were struggling with family finding when they came to the NFS summer camp. The people they met gave them the strength to continue and their son came home weeks later. They talk about the highs and lows, including how they've dealt with their son initially bonding more with Oliver than with Adam. They even tell us all about their "Jar Fairy" who magically sends messages to the people their son misses. | 37m 30s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.