If we had to make a list of the most challenging jobs in the world, being a parent would surely make it to our top 10. Raising children, maintaining a household, and holding down a job to pay the bills and put food on the table is no easy task for anyone. But no matter …
Adoption
Siblings in foster care are usually separated due to a lack of resources. There are not many homes that can accommodate large sibling groups and provide all their needs. This was what a set of six siblings in Tampa, Florida had to go through for three years. Luckily, a kind-hearted couple adopted them all so …
A Safe Haven Baby Box changed the life of a firefighter in Florida when he found a newborn baby in it. Later on, he adopted the little girl, which was what he wanted to do the first time he saw her. In 2020, the first Safe Haven Baby Box in Ocala Fire Department was installed. …
A NICU nurse adopted a teenage mother so she wouldn’t be separated from her premature triplets, which she used to care for in the neonatal intensive care unit for months. Shariya Small’s teenage life turned upside down when she gave birth to triplets at 14 years old. She just became a teenager but she had …
Originally posted 2019. Photo update, see below. This couple never expected that at their age, they would become adoptive parents to a precious baby boy. Keia Jones-Baldwin, a North Carolina-based therapist, and her husband, Richardo Baldwin, were planning to adopt another child into their family of five. They were looking into older children to add …
In 2010, a mixed pit bull, Netty arrived at a Pennsylvania SPCA shelter and was adopted after three days. However, this summer, she was brought back to the same shelter after 12 years. Her owners dropped her there and asked for the 15-year-old dog to be put down. “She was returned with a requested euthanasia,” …
NYPD officer Aruna Maharaj once saved a helpless dog from a hot, locked car. Just a month after, she adopted this dog and is now happily looking after him. On June 18, New York Police Department’s 19th Precinct received a call about a dog locked in a car. When the officers came to rescue the …
A Pennsylvania oncology nurse stepped up in a big way when her terminally ill patient asked if she could adopt her only son when she died. Tricia Seaman was a nurse at Pinnacle Health Community General in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, when she first met Tricia Somers, a single mom to her then eight-year-old son, Wesley. The …
Every child is a blessing, but not all mothers have the resources to care for their children. And that’s precisely what Safe Haven Baby Boxes in Indiana are for: to provide moms in crisis with a secure place to surrender their newborns with no shame and blame. These baby boxes installed at fire stations paved …
A 14-year-old boy from Cayce, South Carolina, just started his own lawn care business to help cover the adoption legal fees his stepfather needs to adopt him and his big brother. Tyce Pender says Eric Jenkins, 36, has been a father figure to him since he was two years old. He started dating his mom …
Not every kid in the foster care system is lucky enough to be placed in the same home as their adopted siblings. Brothers Tre and Ke’lynn know this all too well, as they had been in Child Protective Custody for three and a half years. They spent most of that time living in separate foster …
None of us remembers what happened during our first birthday parties, but Abraham Walker remembers his clearly. In fact, he’d say it’s one of the best days of his life. Abraham is originally from Sierra Leone in West Africa and was adopted by Jamie Walker and Joe Walker in October 2021. He’s never had a …