{"id":215962,"date":"2019-12-30T08:31:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T14:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=215962"},"modified":"2019-12-31T01:19:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T07:19:55","slug":"young-couple-adopts-third-teenage-foster-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/young-couple-adopts-third-teenage-foster-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Young couple adopts third teenage son from foster care: ‘He belongs with us’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Casey Douglas and her husband are only in their twenties, but they are parents to three teenage boys<\/a> whom they adopted through foster care. Each of the boys came with his own backstory – his own struggle to find his forever family. Their third son was no different. His story was heartbreaking.<\/p>\n

In an essay for Love What Matters<\/a>, Douglas shared the story of how Tim came into their lives. She and her husband were 25 and 27 with a 16-year-old adopted son and one 14-year-old foster son whom they were in the process of adopting. They had been a family of four only a few months when they were preparing for Christmas in 2018. That’s when they got a phone call that changed everything.<\/p>\n

“I know you’re working on adopting your second,” the caseworker told them, “But I need your help.” She began to tell them about a 15-year-old boy named Tim. “I’m not going to sugar coat it. His file is so big that no one will even look at it anymore.”<\/p>\n

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