With less stigma about unmarried mothers, readily available contraception and abortion there are fewer and fewer unwanted babies coming up for adoption.

This means that many adopters may consider older, disabled and emotionally damaged children. There are almost 80,000 children living in care in the UK, many could be available for adoption or foster care.

Many people are put off adoption by the months of intimate and intrusive questions about you and your partner’s personal lives. They check your suitability to be parents, there are home visits, there are police checks on you, your family, your friends and years spent on waiting lists. And years dealing with Social Services.

While no one wants a lax system that could bring vulnerable children into contact with dangerous people, there has to be a better way.

Perhaps if the adoption laws were made easier those thousands of children in care would get loving homes and get chance to be part of a family.

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