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Adoptive parents come in all shapes and sizes, from all backgrounds and walks of life. What
really matters most, is your ability to care for a child, throughout their childhood and
beyond. We’ll consider couples, people who are single or in single sex relationships,
and people with disabilities. From all communities, in all types of accommodation, and employed
or not employed. As long as you’re over 21, we don’t see age as a barrier. You must
be able to support a child financially, and live within Lancashire or very close by. As
you’d expect, we look for a healthy lifestyle too.
I don’t think there are typical parents. I think that anybody who can provide a loving,
stable home can be a parent – whether that be a same sex couple, whether that be a single
parent, a female or a male – as long as you can provide what is right for that child,
then you would be able to adopt. The majority of people coming forward to adopt
are still married couples, but on our second adoption prep course, there was a same-sex
male couple. They’d already adopted once and were going to adopt a second time. And
since adopting, I’ve met lots of single – tends to be ladies – who have chosen
to adopt on their own. Just like there are lots of different adopters, there are lots
of different children who need to be adopted, and for some children, being placed with a
single female is just what they need. If they’ve not had good experiences with men in the past,
then that could be just what they need. Similarly, some – particularly boys – need that male
role model around, so actually, having two dads could be just perfect for them.