After 40 Is After 40 - World Adoption Day: Have You Considered Adopting Or Where You Adopted Yourself?

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With today being World Adoption Day, the team reflected on the role adoption play in helping raise the nation this after the latest official figures show only about 800 adoptions registered in South Africa in 2024/25, 713 local and 88 international. Yet nearly one in five South African children lives with neither parent. Fresh and Thato asked listeners on their experience of being raised by someone who stepped up when they didn’t have to? And on what did it teach you about belonging, and at 40 and beyond, who do you call family?
9 Nov 1AM English South Africa News

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