One of the first things you are asked when you are applying to become an adopter is: What age and how many children do you want to adopt? It usually has the caveat that what you say now is not set in stone and that you can change your mind later. Our original answer was: One or two children aged between 2 and 4. Our logic, such as it was, was that under 2 years old then there would be a huge number of people wanting to adopt them already, so the competition of prospective adopters would be fierce, and