Essie Gilchrist became a foster mom when she was 30 years old. While she was only doing this to help the children, she didn’t know she had inspired many with her kindness. One of these was Hannah Smith, who turned to social media, to try to find her former foster mom. “I was 12 years …
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13-year-old Tony Mutabazi never knew who his birth parents were. He had been under the foster care system since the age of 2, and when he turned 4, a couple from Oklahoma adopted him. A few years later, however, his foster parents did the unthinkable – they left him at a hospital and never returned. …
On Monday, 300 people gathered inside a Collin County courtroom to witness and celebrate the adoption ceremony of an 8-year-old boy. Nike Schwartz spent 1,553 days in foster care and on February 17, he became an official member of his family! Four years ago, Child Protective Services (CPS) took Nike out of his biological parents’ …
Last Christmas, a boy in Ohio received a wonderful gift from his adoptive family that is bound to change his life. Despite his young age, circumstances had been far from easy for 11-year old Carter Wyles. He lives in a troubled home in Lancaster, Ohio and has been transferred from foster home to foster home …
When you ask children about what they want, their answers are usually predictable: things like toys, computer games, and gadgets are just some of the typical stuff children want to have. But for the little girl Shailee, she wants something else – she just wants to be adopted. Jeremiah and Jessica Frank from Arizona are happily …