{"id":224445,"date":"2020-05-31T11:20:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T16:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=224445"},"modified":"2020-05-29T20:39:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T01:39:18","slug":"film-the-ride-foster-care-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/film-the-ride-foster-care-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer film ‘The Ride’ promotes the power of foster care and adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“The Ride,” a new film set to be released on July 31, is based on the true life story of former BMX biking star John Buultjens<\/a>, who was born in Scotland into a troubled home.\u00a0Buultjens gives a powerful performance playing the role of his own biological father in the film.<\/p>\n

According to an article in the Irish Examiner<\/a>, Buultjens’ first childhood memory was from toddlerhood. When he ran to greet his father who was arriving home from work, his father picked him up and threw him in a fire, damaging his foot. By age five, Buultjens was often living on the streets with his two older siblings, preferring to be anywhere other than exposed to their father’s alcohol-fueled anger and violence at home. At age seven, he tried to stab his father, who was beating his mother so badly that Buultjens thought she might die. His father in turn beat him unconscious. Buultjens’ mother arranged for him to be put into a children’s home the very next day.<\/p>\n

Within several years, unable to process the trauma not only of his family of origin but also the violence of the children’s home he lived in, he was on a path to complete self-destruction. After a rocky start with his foster parents, John was offered a chance to return to the children’s home or to remain in his foster home. When he told the social worker that he wanted to go back to the children’s home, she told him had a choice but believed her would “die in there” if he chose the children’s home. He stayed with his foster parents, and was eventually adopted by them.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Single black mom adopts three white children from foster care: \u2018I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n