UK Adoption Support Fund Fails 75% Families, Leaves Children Without Therapy

Adoption remains a complex and often challenging issue marked by both deeply personal experiences and systemic problems. Foster carers recount the emotional triumphs and heartbreaking setbacks in caring for vulnerable children, highlighting issues like inconsistent care, withheld information, and children being returned to unfit birth parents, undermining stability. In South Korea, the story of bi-racial adoptees and those seeking community outside the capital reveals a hidden history of forced adoption tied to racist laws, as well as broader social isolation affecting young populations. Some advocates and couples embrace adoption as a vocation and an expression of faith, emphasizing unconditional love beyond biological ties, while critics warn that the rising push for increased adoption in the U.S. post-Roe risks harming women and children by promoting adoption without sufficient safeguards. The debate underscores that adoption should be rare, carefully regulated, and supportive of both mothers' and children's rights, rather than an unchecked consequence of restrictive reproductive policies.