Ian Johnstone adopted brother and sister Daniel and Amelie in a previous relationship, and has since become engaged to his new partner Paul. He told Ben Kelly about finding love in the depths of Scotland as a single dad.
I adopted the kids with my ex-partner in 2004. I had been a chairman of the Children’s Panel for many years, so I had dealt with kids going through the process of being in care and being adopted. I grew up in care myself and I was never adopted. I wouldn’t have cared if I’d been adopted by a man and a woman, or two men, so long as they loved me and cared for me, and I knew we could give kids a really good life. We went through the adoption process and it was very invasive, very challenging, and it took two years.