{"id":227819,"date":"2020-07-24T10:45:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T15:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=227819"},"modified":"2020-07-24T00:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T05:45:15","slug":"couple-adopts-siblings-foster-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/couple-adopts-siblings-foster-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple adopts five siblings separated in foster care: ‘We are a family, finally’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Texas family grew by five overnight, reuniting siblings previously separated in foster care.<\/p>\n

Thomas and Andi Bonura had three biological children of their own, but 11 years ago were told they wouldn’t be able to have any more. They struggled for years to conceive the children they did have, with all three born prematurely. Their first successful pregnancy was with twins, Eli and Joey, born at 25 weeks. Joey survived, but Eli did not, and Joey still struggles with health problems. He has cerebral palsy, is visually impaired, and communicates through sign language. “He’s very smart…whenever people start to pity him, I tell them, ‘Don’t.’ He’s the happiest kid in this house,” Andi Bonura told Good Morning America<\/a>. She later had daughters Sadie and Daphne, and she had one miscarriage. In 2017, the couple became foster parents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They were immediately paired with the first of their eventual adopted children. The five siblings were all separated, and Bryson, who is now two years old, was the couple’s first foster child, straight out of the hospital. Soon, they added two of Bryson’s siblings: David and Gabrielle. Then, their older twin brothers Thomas and Carter began to visit their other siblings — but visits weren’t enough. “They were sweet and would say, ‘Can we come live with you?'” Bonura recalled.<\/p>\n