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New Family Social
Adoption, Fostering & Tea: The New Family Social Podcast
Parenting
Relationships
Non-Profit
English
Adoption and fostering chat with people who’ve done it, from the UK’s LGBTQ+ adoption and fostering charity, New Family Social.
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Episodes
100
03 December 2025
111 - Adopting an older child after encountering homophobia
Alex and Peter adopted a six-year-old after being turned down for another child. They talk about their assessment and matching process, the attachment therapy that changed everything, and why they hope others will consider older children.
41 min
19 November 2025
110 - "I fostered the child you adopted"
Vivienne has been a foster carer for eight years. An eight month old baby called Bill was placed with her, initially for just a week, but he ended up staying for nearly two years. In the meantime, in another part of the country, Carlos and his partner were talking about adopting. They had a bad experience with their first agency but changed to another and were approved. Browsing Linkmaker, they...
46 min
05 November 2025
109 - Going to approval panel for early permanence
Emily and Jude have completed their assessment process and have just seven days until panel. They're hoping to be approved as early permanence carers for a baby under a year old. Emily talks about how they decided on adoption and what they learnt as volunteers at New Family Social's Summer Camp (including mud pie recipes!). Emily talked about how she listened to other episodes of this podcast to...
36 min
22 October 2025
108 - "Adopting my son made me a better person".
Fay talks about adopting her two-year-old son after three rounds of IVF, including one miscarriage. She had heard about how much longer black children wait for adoptive families and felt that adoption would be the right way to parenthood for her. Family life has brought Fay and her wife so much happiness and she talks about the importance of play and the need for patience!
35 min
08 October 2025
107 - "We're having the time of our lives!"
Monty and his husband were approved for Early Permanence and had a tiny baby placed with them. Just a couple of months later, they were asked if they'd adopt the baby's older sibling. Monty talks about delays in their assessment process, becoming a parent twice in less than six months, and how much joy their children have brought them. Monty recommends this book: Undertaking an adoption...
28 min
23 September 2025
106 - Bi-erasure in the adoption process
Oliver returns to the podcast to talk about how he navigated the adoption process (including some ill-informed questions) as a bisexual man. He discusses his journey to positively identify as bisexual, and also brings us up-to-date on life with his four-year-old son. Their previous podcast can be found here Episode 97
33 min
10 September 2025
105 - Adoption, Fostering and Tea - Live at Summer Camp
This episode of Adoption, Fostering and Tea was recorded live at our annual summer camp for LGBTQ adoption and fostering families, taking questions from our audience.
34 min
27 August 2025
104 - Adopting an older child as older adopters
Robin and James were in their late 40s when they decided it was time to adopt. They talk about how they overcame the negative messages they'd received, as children, about gay people. They discuss their decision to adopt an older child, why they'd recommend this to others, and how they helped their son when he faced homophobic bullying.
42 min
13 August 2025
103 - Newly diagnosed autistic adopter
Archie was diagnosed as autistic during the adoption assessment process. Tor and Archie talk about what it's like to learn you're autistic and the strengths it brings the as parents.
35 min
30 July 2025
102 - I researched adoption for ten years before I took the first step.
Carlos has wanted children since he was 17. He started researching adoption in his mid-twenties and, ten years later, he's stuck in stage one but excited about his future as a single adopter for one or two children.
31 min