Internet adoption couple Alan and Judith Kilshaw today said they have right on their side in the custody row over the twins they brought from the United States.
The Kilshaws, who will tomorrow face a court battle with social workers for custody of the twin girls they adopted after finding them through the Internet, said they believed the girls were "our children".
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The couple, who have been heavily criticised on both sides of the Atlantic, also said they had been "ruined" by allegations made about them.
Mrs Kilshaw told reporters outside her home in North Wales that she believed her family was in the right over the adoption issue. "We are still fighting for our children because they are our children," she said.
"I was upset last night when I thought I wouldn't see them when they get to 18 and get married. I am hopeful that they will still be with us and if they are not with us physically they will be with us in our thoughts.
"I will never forget them if I never see them again. They are always in my mind and memory."
The outcry over the case has provoked the British Department of Health to speed up the passage of new laws protecting babies being adopted abroad and brought back to Britain.
But Mrs Kilshaw, 47, has said media coverage of the adoption had turned her and her 45-year-old solicitor husband into hate figures.
PA