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The adoptions that took place between the 1950s and 1970s often resulted in babies being unnecessarily taken away from unmarried mothers with consequent life-long pain. The First...

For mothers whose children have been adopted, this time of year is a challenge. Xmas and New Year bring expectations of togetherness, celebrations of birth and renewal, and the...

By the time this article appears the UK’s National Adoption Week in October will be over. However we could not let it pass without drawing attention to this year’s welcome...

Throughout this Autumn we are celebrating our one hundred and eleventh year with much activity relating to national adoption weeks in October (UK) and November (Scotland). This...

There are very few works of fiction (books, TV, cinema) that treat adoption sympathetically. Often we are treated to plot twists involving the sudden discovery of being adopted,...

Babies and infants are no longer the majority of children adopted. Most children adopted today are older, have been in care because of assessments of parental mistreatment and...

We are one of the oldest Edinburgh charities in existence. We’ve been stymied from celebrating our 110-year anniversary so often in the last year that we’ve decided to go ahead...

A 79-year-old mother from the United States has launched a desperate search for her son she gave up for adoption in Scotland in the 1960s and has highlighted the plight of the...

First, when a child leaves their birth family for an adoptive family, their name is changed and original birth certificate (Original Birth Entry - OBE) is annotated “adopted”.