{"id":276796,"date":"2022-09-30T16:46:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T21:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=276796"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:56:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:56:26","slug":"86-year-old-foster-mother-189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/86-year-old-foster-mother-189\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarkable: 86-year-old woman has fostered 189 children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An 86-year-old woman from South Carolina has been a foster mother for 40 years, helping 189 children \u2014 and she has no plans of stopping.<\/p>\n

According to TODAY<\/a>, in 1983, Hannah Ford was a widowed mother of five adult children and was feeling alone when a friend suggested she consider becoming a foster mother.<\/p>\n

“There are so many children out there that need help, that need love,” Ford told ABC 15<\/a>. “We do not know some of the conditions these children have experienced at an early age. […M]y children got grown and moved away. It was an opportunity for me to give some of their experience and give back to the community to help these children.”<\/p>\n

Four decades later she is still going strong and has even adopted seven of the foster children who have come to her home.<\/p>\n