Adoption should never be a ‘wonderful gesture’! Do you also think the children should have been ‘grateful’ ? Adoption should be about unconditional love and respect for the child the parents have committed to. This is why these days there are so many checks on prospective adopters, it’s should never be about the parents but all about the security and care of the child. Unfortunately don’t think June and Nevill quite got that.
As I've said, previously, I believe June and Nevill, not unlike some other adoptive parents had certain expectations of their children which they were expected to fulfill -just as they'd have expected of their biological children to whom it may have come more easily. Because the adopted children may have have different views -needs- the rural, farming life not being innate in them, they'd have been criticized. As the saying goes, if you continually criticize your children, they won't stop loving you. They will stop loving themselves.