{"id":192327,"date":"2018-12-12T08:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T14:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=192327"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:38:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T20:38:41","slug":"empty-nesters-adopt-five-siblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/empty-nesters-adopt-five-siblings\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty nesters adopt five siblings: ‘It was important that we kept them together’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Karen and Tyrone Mack, both age 55, are celebrating their decision to adopt five siblings this past November. Though it isn’t their first go as parents — between them, they raised six children during previous marriages — it is different this time around. The children’s birth mother is Tyrone’s niece, and she has struggled with mental health issues and drug abuse. The children’s fathers have never been a constant presence in their lives. Their mother asked Tyrone and Karen to take care of her children.<\/p>\n

“We said, ‘Lord, what can we do,” Karen Mack told the Washington Post<\/a>. “So we decided to take all the kids and keep them together. I guess that’s what God wanted us to do.”<\/p>\n

The children’s ages range from two to 10. There’s the oldest, Heaven, then Chanel (age seven), Hakeem (six), Hayden (five), and Jeremiah (two).\u00a0The couple began caring for the girls and brought Jeremiah to live with them when he was eight months old. The other boys had been put into separate foster homes, so the Macks brought them home too. Now, they have at last adopted all of them.<\/p>\n

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