Two dads, Lee and Bobby, share their journey adopting siblings, from the validation of being approved as parents to navigating their sons' unique personalities and trauma responses. Their story highlights the importance of maintaining connections with foster carers while developing therapeutic approaches to parenting children who've experienced neglect. • Equal treatment in the adoption process regardless of being a same-sex couple • Building productive relationships with the foster carer wh...
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Two dads, Lee and Bobby, share their journey adopting siblings, from the validation of being approved as parents to navigating their sons' unique personalities and trauma responses. Their story highlights the importance of maintaining connections with foster carers while developing therapeutic approaches to parenting children who've experienced neglect. • Equal treatment in the adoption process regardless of being a same-sex couple • Building productive relationships with the foster carer wh...
This episode we're in Scotland where we meet Carole, a foster carer who specialises in short term, temporary fostering. Carole shares her journey from casually supporting a neighbour to becoming a short term foster carer. Carol shares her experiences of navigating the initial excitement of new foster children, transitioning them into structured routines, working with birth families and children from diverse cultural backgrounds - and sitting with uncertainty in a time of change f...
Barnardo's Fostering & Adoption Podcast
Two dads, Lee and Bobby, share their journey adopting siblings, from the validation of being approved as parents to navigating their sons' unique personalities and trauma responses. Their story highlights the importance of maintaining connections with foster carers while developing therapeutic approaches to parenting children who've experienced neglect. • Equal treatment in the adoption process regardless of being a same-sex couple • Building productive relationships with the foster carer wh...
