Interestingly 70 per cent of people between 16 and 24 would consider adopting a child in the future. For people in that age group who are in a relationship, the figure swells to an amazing 76 per cent. Clearly, not all of them are going and filling in the forms (some of them are 16, after all, it really wouldn’t be appropriate) and most of them would only consider it if they were in a relationship in the future, but a quarter of them would think about taking on the challenge alone.