Samantha from Kent talks exclusively to HELLO! to mark National Adoption Week
is saddened to hear that there has been a 23% decrease in the number of children being adopted over the last five years.has launched a new campaign to show how adoption has evolved over the years. The campaign features a powerful new film and portrait series - captured by royal photographer Philip Sinden, who was adopted himself in the 1970s - to highlight stories of different generations of adopted people from between the 1960s to 2010s.
I have seen first-hand how adoption has changed through the generations. I have also been witness to the impact of adoption both through my own family and through the children I work with at a primary school.In 1939, as in the 60s, we had the closed adoption system, which meant that a child had no access to information about their birth family or their early beginnings.
My adoptive parents were visited by a social worker just once. My mother’s main memory was my father feeling insulted that he was asked about his income!There was little information about the children offered for adoption apart from the fact they came from ‘good homes’ and certainly no training on adoption trauma or indeed any preparation for adoption at all.
I, however, was determined she would be my ‘baby sister’. My mother found it really hard to know why she was so clingy, would chew her cot and needed constant reassurance and attention. So little in those days was understood about adoption trauma or the importance of early bonding.
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