{"id":276677,"date":"2022-09-26T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T17:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=276677"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:42:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T02:42:36","slug":"kentucky-family-named-angels-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kentucky-family-named-angels-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky family receives Congressional recognition, named ‘angels’ of adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Kentucky family has been recognized by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as Angels in Adoption<\/a>\u00a0after adopting three children in just a few short years.<\/p>\n

Johnathan and Julie Emmons Gay experienced a miscarriage in 2015 and then decided to become foster parents. They soon welcomed a little girl, Makayla, into their home; six months later, Maya came along. The Gays eventually adopted both girls, and as the couple already had a biological son, Jackson, they thought their family was complete. But more children were still to come.<\/p>\n

Two years later, they found out Maya’s biological mother was expecting a little boy, and he was bound for foster care. Not wanting to have the siblings split up, the family adopted him as well, only to discover that Julie was pregnant with another baby just a few months later. The two children, Johnathan and Maison, rounded out their family. Altogether, the couple adopted three children \u2014 and had one of their own \u2014 in a relatively short time span.<\/p>\n