Mary Doyle 's family was created in an unusual way. Mary is a white single parent and over the last 25 years she has adopted six children who would not otherwise have found a home.
Mainly from mixed race parentage, they are all scarred by unhappy experiences of children's and foster homes.
"The children who come to me are already damaged because they're older and have been moved around. They invariably bring a lot of baggage with them," she explains. In A Mother's Love, the third in this series of real-life dramas faced by six families, the Doyies explore that "baggage" and their attempts to deal with it.
Some adoption agencies insist on placing mixed-race children in black families but the Doyle family all agree with 25-year-old Martin when he says: "I've never thought that having a black parent would make things better for me ... I think the most important thing is to have a parent." ProducerAnne Taylor
Series producer Anne Webber
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