{"id":215568,"date":"2019-12-20T14:44:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T20:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=215568"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:19:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T16:19:48","slug":"single-black-mom-adopts-white-children-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/single-black-mom-adopts-white-children-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"Single black mom adopts three white children from foster care: ‘I wouldn’t have it any other way’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A single black mother is speaking out what life is like raising her three children, who happen to be white. Despite the stares they often get in public, she says she “wouldn’t have it any other way.”<\/p>\n

Treka Engleman grew up the youngest of\u00a011 children, but she lost her mother when she was just six years old. While she had plenty of family around her, she said in an essay for Love What Matters<\/a> that after her mother died, she didn’t have anyone to show her how to be a mother. Still, babysitting and being around children including her 20 nieces and nephews felt “natural” to her, and she knew that she wanted to be a mother someday. She even dreamed of being a foster mom.<\/p>\n

“For years, I wanted to be a foster mom,” she wrote. “Yet I was always hesitant to start the journey to foster care because I didn’t think a single person like myself could be a foster mom (no spouse, no children).”<\/p>\n

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