Being taken from your parents and placed in a foster home as a child can be very tough. If you are also separated from your siblings, it immediately becomes even worse. You may have to ...
To be someone’s family does not mean you have to be biologically related to them. Families come in all shapes and sizes, and every single one of them is special. This Detroit woman already had ...
Jacob Smith was newly married, juggling full time college with a full time job, and wasn’t considering expanding his family, until he saw a Facebook post. A group of 8 siblings were looking for a ...
Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth has been a regular on both the stage and screen for almost 30 years. Now she’s written a book for children which explores adopting a dog, which prompted her to open ...
Jean Manning moved from Florida to Massachusetts with her teenage son Jake to seek better medical care for herself. The move also meant she needed to find another school for Jake, who has Down syndrome. ...
For more than 25 years, Serge Zevlever helped more than 3,500 children in his home country of Ukraine find loving adoptive homes in the U.S. The married father and grandfather, who had a home in ...
When Qian Fenxiang fell pregnant with her daughter Jingzhi in 1994 it should have been a joyous occasion. She and her husband Xu Lida were a happily married couple living in China with one daughter, ...
Kelci and Theron Jagge are parents who have just gone through the adoption process and are considering themselves lucky in more ways than one. The couple, from San Antonio, Texas, began the adoption process in ...
All parents can relate to the fear of having a newborn in their lives; no matter how many books you’ve read or new parenting courses you’ve attended, nothing can prepare you for that bundle of ...
Troya Yoder is affectionately referred to as Yoder by the teenager with special needs she adopted. Troya is a paraprofessional in education and works with school children; she met David when he was 13 and ...