Meet The Royal Family
Family Members Denise Royal – adoptive mother Denise Royal was single and looking for the right person to start a traditional kind of family, when she saw a Wednesday’s Child segment in 2001. She watched the teenager featured, and thought, …
Click here to read more >>Meet the Roman-Snellgrove Family
‘I knew a young man who needed a family.’ For Paul Snellgrove, it was almost that simple. As a caseworker at a New York City foster care agency, Paul got to know Keith on his caseload. Keith entered foster care …
Click here to read more >>Meet Anni and Mary
Anni’s life has radically changed from how it used to be. ‘I bonded with people through crisis. That’s all I knew.’ Anni (talk a bit about childhood) When Anni met Mary, Mary was already parenting ** adopted teens. With a …
Click here to read more >>Meet Susan and Sharif
‘I was born in foster care,’ says Sharif, ‘then I was placed with a couple different families, before I was adopted the first time.’ ‘I did the typical teenager thing… I broke curfew and stayed out late… She told me …
Click here to read more >>Meet Chester and Eboney
‘Making a lifetime commitment to a teen isn’t something we decided, it was something that we just did,’ reflects Chester Jackson, an adoptive father of two teens. As he puts it, ‘This whole ‘permanent homes for teens’ thing kind of …
Click here to read more >>Meet Arelis & Mary
‘I guess it was never really ‘home’ because we were always moving around in shelters.’ reflects Arelis. With drug addicted parents and a father with mental health challenges, instability was the norm for the first years of Arelis’ life. Then …
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