{"id":257572,"date":"2021-11-20T16:10:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T22:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=257572"},"modified":"2021-11-21T22:46:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T04:46:38","slug":"adoption-seven-siblings-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/adoption-seven-siblings-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption joy: NJ couple with six biological children adopts seven siblings from Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In honor of National Adoption Day<\/a>\u00a0on November 20, People magazine<\/a> featured an incredible story of a New Jersey couple with six biological children who adopted<\/a> seven siblings, ages six through 17, from Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Michelle and Wade Torppey attend a church that regularly partners with Open Hearts and Homes for Children<\/a>, a nonprofit organization that brings orphans from Latvia and Ukraine to the United States for a month of vacation around Christmastime each year. In 2018, when their two youngest children were still in high school, Wade and Michelle learned of a set of five Ukrainian siblings in need of a host family.<\/p>\n

“My pastor’s wife got word of a family of five kids, and thought they might be split up among two families here so they could be close for Christmas,” Michelle told PEOPLE. “I showed the picture to my husband, who took one look and he said, ‘Let’s take all five of them.’ Okay! In my mind, I’m thinking, ‘It’s a month, I can do anything for a month.’ It’s a lot of kids, we already have six, and now we’re going to have five more.”<\/p>\n

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