Not every kid in the foster care system is lucky enough to be placed in the same home as their 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 homes—a …
Foster care
Thirteen-year-old Tim from Texas entered the foster care system at the age of 3. He has long been waiting for a family to adopt him — for someone to call him their son. Tim is a wonderful young man, but he is still in the foster care system 10 years later. The teen recently appeared …
On May 23, 2019, Steve and Rob Anderson-McLean’s family grew by six after adopting siblings who spent five years in foster care. The Pennsylvania couple matched with Carlos, Guadalupe, Maria, Selena, Nasa, and Max in June 2018. The following month, they opened their home—and their hearts—to the kids, who were removed from their biological parents’ …
A mom from Georgia who lost her eldest daughter in a car crash is turning her tragedy into a blessing by opening a free clothing store for children in need. The boutique, called Blossom, officially opened on February 20, although it has been helping many kids even before that. Founder Linda Durrence, 51, told Fox …
A teen who had been in the foster care system since he was three years old finally found a forever family after living in 15 foster homes. Unsurprisingly, Alex Madkour, 13, had lost all hope in finding a forever home after 11 years of living with different sets of adults. Jumping from one home to …
In 2017, a California cop named Jesse Whitten of the Santa Rosa Police Department met a homeless pregnant woman while on patrol. Little did he know that he would be parenting the child she was carrying a year later. Whitten, who was 33 at the time, was asked by the baby’s mother if he and …
Loralie Henry, 9, spent almost half her life in the foster care system—1,445 days, to be exact. And her adoption story has been likened to that of the fictional character, Matilda. Loralie entered the system when she was 4 before briefly going back to her biological mom at 5. Then, she returned once again to …
Barry Farmer didn’t grow up in a conventional home with a mom and a dad, but that experience molded him to become the outstanding man he is today—a father to three boys. When Barry was just a toddler, he and his three sisters went into “kinship care,” a form of foster care where relatives or …
The people we call “family” aren’t only those we’re related to by blood; it also includes those who have been a significant part of our lives. For 14-year-old Alecia, those people are her foster parents, Tiffany and Daniel Donaldson. The latter, a youth sports coach in Haleyville, Alabama, had become Alecia’s mentor and friend since …
“What is something you’ve done purely out of the goodness of your heart but have not told anyone?” When this question was posted on the popular website Reddit last month, a member who goes by the name “dartdoug” said that he once visited the website of One Simple Wish and donated a bike to a …
Spending your formative years without your parents carries many challenges. Unfortunately, it’s a situation that Monyay Paskalides knows all too well. The 19-year-old from Bradenton, Florida, spent most of her life—including all her teenage years—in the foster care system. When she aged out of the system last year, she prepared herself for a life of …
For the last 34 years, Linda Owens has played mother to 81 infants through foster care. This 78-year-old woman from Hayward, California, has cared for a 7-week-old baby girl since she left the hospital as a newborn. She is the 81st infant that Owens has taken care of as a resource parent. Recently, she was …