Among other things, what we've seen is that more parents who adopted an older child were willing to take a full year off work, even if their child was going to school. It enabled them to handle all kinds of other tasks throughout the day. For example, they were able to fetch the child at lunch time, have lunch with them, and then fetch them again at the end of the day. The preparation of the evening meal and all the other parental tasks are done, making them fully available to be with and bond with their child. This has been confirmed by experts. Previously, adoptive parents of an older child were less likely to extend their leave at their own expense, causing an impact on the child's educational success and on the family bond. That's one of the factors that we've seen.
Previously, we used to receive all kinds of calls from desperate parents. We have been getting far fewer now because they no longer have that burden. Nor do they have to feel guilty any more for having to take a young child to child care or to school when they did not feel ready to leave the nest. It's important to understand that to an adopted child, child care, whether in a family setting or in an institution, may look like another host family or another orphanage. The time spent by parents with children to make them understand that this time it's really true, and that it's a permanent family, is critical as time goes by, when children have to make their own way through various institutions.