Author Archives: Fiona Wells

If only they’d listened.

Like most people who adopt, we went through several years of desperately wanting to give [...]

Fight Mode Prevents Change – It Is A Systemic Issue Too

Barriers to Change in Social Work: Breaking the Cycle Change isn’t just necessary—it’s urgent. Every [...]

If only they had listened…………

 my children would still live with their siblings.  my daughter would not have [...]

Should I never have adopted? by P

Three months after a short but traumatic experience with adoption I had found a group [...]

Mum’s Agony

We Adopted Two Children, But Four Months Later We Were Forced to Put Them in [...]

Reflections on My Adoption Experience By FT

My partner and I had not tried for birth children. Instead, we wanted to provide [...]

Parenting At A Distance

Parenting at a Distance When my adopted son went back into care in July 2021, [...]

Child To Parent (And Sibling) Violence And Abuse Due To Early Life Trauma And Attachment Disorder

By Sian Cooper For anyone who reads this story, I would ask that you consider [...]

Visibility as an Ethnically Mixed Family By Augusto Nembrini

Being autistic brings its own challenges, especially when it comes to recognising certain behaviours in [...]

Generations of Adoption – 70 Years By Crystal

Adoption 70 years Ago to Today As a family, we have had a varied experience [...]

Our Disruption Story

Our Disruption Story Disruption is never anything other than heart-breaking for everyone involved. However, how [...]

Committed To Building Change

Committed to Change in Adoption (Permanence) I am committed to building change in the world [...]

My name is Ellie, and this is my story

My husband and I adopted three siblings, hoping to give them a loving and stable [...]