Different Colours, Same Love: Kathryn Weaver

About this episode

Kathryn Weaver shares her family's journey through adoption and discusses the complexities surrounding it.

Raphael Wong and Kathryn Weaver explore her family's transformative journey through the adoption of Max and Roxie. Kathryn offers profound perspectives on adoption, drawing from her experience both as a mother and an employment lawyer. After fifteen years together, Kathryn and her husband Alex deliberately chose adoption as their preferred path to parenthood. She champions the fundamental right to choose adoption whilst challenging the misconception that adoptive parents are merely couples unable to conceive naturally, believing family creation should reflect individual choice with society respecting diverse paths to parenthood. She observes how considerably more straightforward their adoption journey proved compared to challenges faced by single applicants or same-sex couples. Their process proceeded remarkably swiftly, with a successful match emerging from their first panel hearing, leading to welcoming Max and meeting him at his foster placement. Kathryn reflects on how perceptions of family dynamics and interracial adoption have evolved over time, taking pride in how she and her husband established themselves within their Peng Chau community simply as "Max and Roxie's…

People in this episode

Host: Raphael Wong

Guest: Kathryn Weaver

Topics covered

• adoption
• parenthood
• family dynamics
• interracial adoption
• legal considerations
• social welfare

Keywords

• adoption
• parenthood
• family
• interracial
• legal system
• Hong Kong
• social welfare
• parental age
• extended family

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hong Kong Social Welfare Department

Places: Peng Chau

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