On Saturday, senior child advocate, Anthony Douglas, the Chief Executive of the Child and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS) said: “IVF used to be around 7% successful and now it’s around 30%.
“So as a choice, adoption is competing with lots of other ways of having children.”
The adoption process “takes twice as long as it should, which puts people off”, he added.
But adoption and fostering charity, Home for Good, has rejected the claim, arguing that framing adoption as the preserve of those who are unable to have birth children is a misunderstanding.
Adoptive father and Founding Director of Home for Good, Dr Krish Kandiah, said: “the claims are a misunderstanding of the very essence of adoption. Ultimately, adoption is not about family completion but the flourishing of vulnerable children. Conflating infertility and adoption is not helpful and the claims that IVF success has caused a ‘collapse in adoption’ is so simplistic it paints an untrue picture.
“Adoption is for all those who want to make a difference in the lives of vulnerable children, not just those suffering with infertility.”
“The charity I founded aims its recruitment of new foster or adoptive families, not at those facing infertility, but at those willing to open their homes to vulnerable children in need of a loving, stable home. We’ve seen a whole range of people step…
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