Foster carers beg for support as record numbers quit the system

Foster carers beg for support as record numbers quit the system

The Sun-Herald has spoken to five anonymous foster carers who have accused the government of failing them and the children in their care.

  • byAmber Schultz

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Adoptions plummet despite reforms making it easier for carers to adopt

Adoptions plummet despite reforms making it easier for carers to adopt

Actor and adoption advocate Deborra-lee Furness has called for a refocus on permanency while the NSW government says a backlog in adoption applications has been cleared.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
Sydneysiders Trent and Paul defied the odds to become parents

Sydneysiders Trent and Paul defied the odds to become parents

In 2010 adoptions by same-sex couples were legalised. In 2024,barriers persist.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
Foster provider failed worker who was sexually assaulted by teenage boy
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Foster provider failed worker who was sexually assaulted by teenage boy

A court has been told the woman was attacked by the troubled youth who had a history of violence.

  • byClare Sibthorpe
Nancy was told her baby went to the US. Almost four decades later,they met in Adelaide
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Nancy was told her baby went to the US. Almost four decades later,they met in Adelaide

After agreeing to put her daughter up for adoption,Nancy Loquinario didn’t get to kiss her goodbye. Nancy prayed that one day she would see her daughter again.

  • byCarolyn Webb
In Boston,I met the stranger I had loved all along

In Boston,I met the stranger I had loved all along

Our connection began years before on the other side of the world but my brother and I might well have passed each other on the street.

  • byJessie Stephens
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Victorian woman reunites with biological mother
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Victorian woman reunites with biological mother

A video Rache Mahon arranged to capture her reunion with her biological mother Nancy Loquinario for the first time since Mahon was a baby in 1987. Production Company:Stepney Studios

Son stolen at birth hugs mother for first time in 42 years

Son stolen at birth hugs mother for first time in 42 years

Almost half a century after being taken from an incubator – his mother was told he had died – Jimmy met his mother for the first time after an at-home DNA test.

  • byNathan Ellgren
The Blind Side’s football star says he was not adopted but tricked

The Blind Side’s football star says he was not adopted but tricked

The feel-good movie about a well-to-do white family adopting a black teenager is now the subject of a court petition by former NFL player Michael Oher.

‘You must tell no one’:The secret Brendan’s dad wanted kept for a lifetime

‘You must tell no one’:The secret Brendan’s dad wanted kept for a lifetime

Brendan was nearly 30 when he finally tracked down his biological mother. Then came an even more stunning revelation.

  • byBrendan Watkins
‘I have been silent for so many years’:The revelation Joasia never expected

‘I have been silent for so many years’:The revelation Joasia never expected

A mother never felt that her Holocaust-survivor parents loved her. Then came a letter from Canada.

  • byKaren Kirsten