Length:2:01 mins Date:16 February 2004 Subject:Taking Care: Adoption
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Title:Taking Care: Adoption
Val Powell, with her second husband Paul, decided to adopt after having beought up three boys in her previous marriage.
Clair and Kerry-Ann have Downs Sydrome and Davina has behavioural problems.
The three girls are now in their late teens and early twenties but Val still remembers the different experiences and emotions she went through when they were adopted.