Adopting is about making a real difference to a child's life. When you adopt, you provide a secure, loving home to a child – for life! Like all parenting, it means sticking with it through good times and bad. It is one of the most challenging, but also one of the most rewarding things you can do.
Adoption is a legal process by which new parents or parent take on all the rights and responsibilities of natural parents. The adopted child usually takes the surname of the family and becomes a permanent part of their family in the same way as if the child had been born to them.
Adoption is a lifelong commitment. It's about providing a permanent family for a child or children in care who cannot, for whatever reason, return home.

