Our adopters’ stories

What is it like to adopt? How will I find being an adoptive parent? What will my new family be like?

There’s nothing like hearing it from people with real experience. That’s why we’ve gathered together some of your adopter stories, so you can discover first-hand accounts of people like you who have completed their families with Coram.

All our stories are real but some names and identities have been changed to protect anonymity. Photographs are posed by models.

Published 17 October 2024

Jane’s story

How having a strong and varied support structure can make a difference.

Published 14 April 2024

Tessa and Paolo’s story

Tessa and Paolo cared for baby Alice from ten months old through Coram’s early permanence scheme, going on to adopt her in October 2021.

Published 12 October 2022

Anne’s story

Anne is a single woman of black Caribbean descent who adopted her two daughters through Coram in 2021 and 2022.

Published 12 October 2022

Frankie’s story

Frankie had been exploring adoption for a number of years but it was in 2019 that she first discovered early permanence and felt certain it was something she wanted to do.

Published 1 August 2022

Bruno and Ivo’s story

Bruno and Ivo are LGBTQ+ adopters who live with their son, Keegan, who joined their family at the age of four, having been in the foster system for over two years.

Published 15 October 2021

Rita’s story

Rita, aged 56, is a single adopter who lives with her daughter Victoria, aged 15.

Published 6 July 2020

Sam finds his family at an Adoption Activity Day

Sam’s early life experience had been scary and unpredictable and for a long time he struggled to trust and form secure attachments.

Published 4 March 2020

Connor and Dan’s story

Connor and Dan adopted a little boy, and later his younger sister, with Coram.

Published 24 February 2020

Ben and Adam’s story

Ben and Adam adopted siblings Lydia, aged five and Spencer, aged four, through Coram in 2016.

Published 17 October 2019

Our lives have changed in every way!

Read James and Liam's adoption story.