{"id":232117,"date":"2020-10-08T12:39:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=232117"},"modified":"2020-10-08T13:52:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T18:52:42","slug":"adopted-foster-kids-importance-contact-biological","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/adopted-foster-kids-importance-contact-biological\/","title":{"rendered":"Family who adopted foster kids stresses importance of contact with biological families"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since she was a child, Kim Lacefield knew one day she wanted to adopt. After she got married and had three biological children, the hope of adopting came back into her heart and mind. She wasn’t sure how it would happen, but she prayed that it would.<\/p>\n

“The thought of kids not being loved caused sleepless nights even as a child,” she told Emily Richey in\u00a0an essay<\/a> for Love What Matters.<\/p>\n

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