We adopted children from challenging backgrounds. Here's the truth about what it's really like

One mother reveals what was challenging about her adoption journey - (Supplied)

I always knew I wanted to be a parent, but after initial struggles in my early thirties and trying IUI and IVF, it turned out that neither me nor my partner had one decent reproductive system between us. Being gay, we weren’t heartbroken because we knew that one of us was never going to be the biological parent, so we were more than happy to consider adoption.