A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives
Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

Tonight: Adopting a Problem
When a couple find they can't have children it's always been a difficult decision to make: to adopt or not. But now they may have to ask themselves another agonising question: would they take on a problem baby. Increasingly these days the only children left waiting in the nurseries are those labelled difficult to place-because they're the wrong colour or the wrong age or physically or emotionally handicapped.
Man Alive looks at the adoption process focusing on couples who have taken the decision to give a home to problem babies; and, in a careful look at the adoption system, discovers both failings and implications for the 70s.