Anna Dombkins

And, you know, we're huge advocates for adoption when it's absolutely necessary and in lots of cases it is.

And we always say we need to do adoption more and we need to do it less.

We need to do it more when there is no other option.

And when children need a family, we need to make that

so much quicker and more accessible in Australia we've got 46,000 children in temporary care and it's so there's so many barriers to those children finding a family so when there is no other option we need to do it more and then when there is a family that can take that baby we need to do it less and we need to provide that family with the opportunity to keep their baby and that was the case for our kids it's quite possible that their birth mother could have kept them

if she had the opportunity.

And of course, we are so glad they're in our family and we adore them.

And so for us and for them, they have got their happy ending.

But it was such a difficult process that it leaves so many children with no option.

There isn't an adoption available and they don't have a family that can keep them.

And so we need to do one or the other, depending on the circumstances.

Yeah.

So we got to take them back and they hadn't remembered much of their story because they were three, four when we came back home to Australia.

And then we took them back.

They were kind of nine and ten.

And they got to go and meet Babu again and just watching him, you know, them run into his arms and watching him, you know, just hug them and show them around his home with such pride and his gardens and all the food he's growing and the way he was living.

a much more stable life, was really beautiful.

And he's not their biological grandfather, but he saved their life.

He wouldn't give up until there was a solution for them.

And he sacrificed so much for them.