'Simultaneously joyous and exhausting' 5 Christians share their stories of adoption
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Claire Musters2022-07-02T14:43:00
This year in the UK, around 35,000 children and young people will enter the care system. That’s 95 children every single day. Claire Musters speaks to five different families who have opened their homes and hearts to foster or adopt some of them
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