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It's official. We are having 5 children placed with us (permanent placement)!! 4 of them will be coming home on Friday. 1, 2, 5 & 7 years old. Number 5 is a prem baby - still in neonates in Lower Hutt hospital. All siblings. Continue

Hello everyone, I'm so glad to see people here that we know. It has been a rough few months for Jeff and I, but I am happy to say that our profile is now in with CYFS and we are in the pool as of friday last week. It took us 7 months to get it into them as I struggled so much with accepting that handing it in would mean the final acceptance that we would be adopting and not having children ourselves. But it feels right to do it at this time. We will be posting our one off to LDS Family services… Continue

Kia ora e te whanau I have set up a Facebook group as well, just to improve our visibility. The Facebook group has a link to our website here. Feel free to join the Facebook group as well. Love to all. Kathie Continue

The purpose of this website is to provide information for families who are seeking to either adopt children or to place children for adoption. If you have already been through this process then perhaps you are an old hand, but for some you may just be wanting to know how to get started. What's the process? What do I need to do? Will it cost money? How does it work? Here is just a little information about the basics. I welcome any other perspectives as well to add to my comments or clarify anyth… Continue

Kia ora koutou katoa and welcome to Families Supporting Adoption (NZ) aka FSA(NZL). I'm Kathie Rifle the current Chairperson for FSA in New Zealand and I welcome you to our FSA Social Network. So what is FSA and what does it do? Families Supporting Adoption is an organization sponsored by LDS Family Services that seeks to promote a positive view of adoption. The organization has more than 5,000 members worldwide—including adoptive couples, birth parents, adults who were adopted, and adoption pr… Continue