Skip to main content

Story: Infertility and childlessness

Adoption option

Image
Adoption option

Adoption is one option for infertile couples who want to have children. Aleada and Roger Branch adopted their son Zayne after fertility treatments were unsuccessful.

Using this item

New Zealand Herald

by Hannah Johnston

Permission of the New Zealand Herald must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

All images & media in this story

How to cite this page

Rhonda Shaw, Infertility and childlessness – Responses to infertility, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27416/adoption-option (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rhonda Shaw, published 23 March 2011.