I have a special sort of respect for those compassionate, loving individuals who decide to adopt and raise children as their own.
This is particularly emphasized when and where it pertains to those people who take on more than one child at a time. Namely, those who agree to adopt brothers and sisters from the same family or home, despite the obvious, additional challenges and pressures that poses.
Now, when I think back to my childhood, I simply cannot imagine a scenario wherein I would be separated from my siblings. The idea that one day we would be sent to different places, different homes is as nauseating to me as it is frightening. Sadly, however, this is a reality experienced by brothers and sisters all over the world each year…
It was certainly the reality for six children in the US who had spent five long years in foster care.
As per reports, the siblings, ranging in age from seven to fourteen, were at high risk of being separated from one another. As readers might imagine, finding homes that would take in all six of them together was difficult, and time, quite simply, was running out.