Disability
Be My Parent features about children and carers with disabilities.
Their brother, plain and simple
Robert's birth children were 14, 12 and 11 when he and his wife adopted William, four, who has cerebral palsy. Robert describes how their relationship developed slowly into a loving bond.
No one could have written that script
Paul and his wife, Belinda, have three birth daughters. The birth of their youngest child, who has Down’s syndrome, transformed their family life and sent them on the road to adoption…
Looking behind the label
If you think about the word 'disabled' or 'disability', what comes to your mind? Is it a wheelchair, or sign language, or someone who needs assistance with everyday living? And if you then think about a disabled child and caring for him or her, what does it evoke for you?
It's tough but not impossible!
When Liz, a disabled single carer, decided to adopt, she had to face many obstacles before being approved.
Love and security for disabled children
Rosie and her husband, Paul, a white couple with three older birth children, have adopted Jamie and Steven.
Ten years on
In 1996, Avril Jackson-Miller and her husband, Simon, appeared on the front cover of Be My Parent with their long-term foster son, Mark, who was 14 at the time and had a short life expectancy. A decade later, Mark is very much still around and the Jackson-Millers are now a family of five.
Let the magic happen!
"Warning! Reading this article could seriously change your life. I hope so anyway." Jennifer Cousins, Disability Consultant on BAAF's Opening Doors project, on falling in love with a little boy who found inventive ways of not wearing his glasses.
It makes me so proud...
Mum-of-five Barbara is so proud of what her three adopted children – all of whom have Down’s syndrome – have achieved, that she wrote to Be My Parent to tell us about them!
Opening doors for all children
We don’t fit into neat boxes labelled ‘disabled’ and ‘not disabled’, because where does one label end and the other begin? Jennifer Cousins of BAAF invites Be My Parent readers to think again...
Last updated: 02 May 08
