Now living in Rugby, in the English Midlands, he describes Bethany as a "place of hell", but not as bad as the home of the dysfunctional adoptive parents in County Wicklow he was sent to when he was nearly four.

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"We hope this transparency will help address the shortage of prospective adopters in England and reduce the growing number of children in care who are waiting for a stable, permanent and secure home in the form of an adoptive placement, " he said.

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We welcome any approach that encourages prospective adoptive parents to consider again whether they could provide a home for an older child or a sibling group.

BBC: Education & Family

Ultimately, the goal should be to find adoptive families for orphans, and sometimes those families cannot be found in the child's home country.

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Dima Yakovlev - a 21-month-old toddler who had left the home only a few months earlier - died of heatstroke after being accidentally left in a car by his adoptive father in Virginia.

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