"There are endless moments of joy, from teaching them to ride a bike to hearing the words, 'I love you daddy'" - the adoptive parents urging you to open your heart and home and discover the magic of sibling adoption

Family is the greatest treasure.

Welcoming a child into your family is the most beautiful thing you can do, and whether it happens naturally, via IVF, surrogacy, or through fostering or adoption - it's simply magical.

Adopting a child isn't without its challenges, but if you open your heart and your home, the experience is one that will transform your life for the better, forever.

Adoptive parents Aaron* and Neil* had always known they wanted to have children, and as a same-sex couple, the discussion about which route they wanted to take was a topic of conversation that quickly arose between them.

Aaron said: "We have friends that have had children through various means, from surrogacy to co-parenting, fostering and adoption, so we spoke to each of them about their experiences, contacted different agencies, reflected on our own motivations and decided that adoption was the right path for us.

"We knew right away that we wanted to adopt siblings. One of us is an only child, who feels they probably would have enjoyed having a brother or sister to grow up with. The other grew up with siblings and remembers that experience fondly.

"The concept of adopting more than one child may be daunting, but we really feel that reflecting on your own experiences of growing up, whether as an only child or sibling, and what kind of experience you would like your own children to have, whether similar or different, really helps to put things into perspective.

"We felt that, given the unique bond that siblings have, it could only be a positive thing for us to be able to offer a way to maintain and nurture that. The shared experience that siblings have is also unique, and we believed that the security of a sibling relationship would make