“I experienced the stability and safe love I’d longed for years. And even though I tried to push it away, they never left me. My family was relentless in their commitment to loving me and helping me heal. No matter what I did – and I did a lot of things – they loved me.”
‘The statistics were extremely stacked against me. Then, I was adopted.’: Former foster youth shares healing journey, ‘You are not responsible for what happened to you as a child’
‘They looked like they hadn’t eaten in weeks, and they never said a single word. Our training was exactly for this moment.’: Mom shares foster-to-adopt journey, advice for other adopters
“Those frail little boys have learned to ride bikes, scooters, skateboards. Our commitment to them is as if I had given birth to them. There is no difference in our love for them.”
From Broken Bones To Healthy Home: How I Became An Adoptive Mom To Two Precious Sisters
“I got a call one day to take a 5-year-old little girl. Later that day, she walked into my house with a trash bag of clothes. She had head lice, body lice, and pinworms. She’d come from a dirty foster home where she said she was made to lay on the floor.”
‘He looked at me and said, ‘When are you going to adopt me?’: Stepmom shares emotional adoption of teen son
“My heart nearly exploded. I started to cry and said, ‘Lets do it!’ I vowed to step up and parent a little boy, but truth is, he taught me more then I could ever teach him.”
From Single Man & Hopeless Foster Child To Forever Family: How Adoption Transformed Two Lives
“We became an official family, but he was my son the moment he walked through my door.”
‘I cried and cried.’: Adoptive mom in tears after school rewards trauma-ravaged son for his kindness
“I immediately started to ugly cry and told the principal, ‘You just don’t understand! You just don’t know what we’ve been through to get to this place!’”