{"id":293881,"date":"2023-06-28T16:43:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T21:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=293881"},"modified":"2023-06-30T16:41:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T21:41:05","slug":"little-boy-speechless-news-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/little-boy-speechless-news-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"HEARTWARMING: Little boy is &#8216;speechless&#8217; at news of his adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A video of a little boy&#8217;s emotional reaction to learning his adoption had been finalized has gone viral.<\/p>\n<p>Dad Chris Overton shared the video on TikTok, writing, &#8220;[A]fter a few years of court the battle is finally over and my son is now undisputably my son.&#8221; The video has been seen nearly 850,000 times on TikTok alone; when it was reposted on YouTube, it was viewed tens of thousands more times.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo! News <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/little-boy-speechless-dad-tells-112825346.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that the family had been trying to finalize the adoption for two years before it was finally made official.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ovewon\/video\/7244982403800878382\" data-video-id=\"7244982403800878382\">\n<section><a title=\"@ovewon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ovewon?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ovewon<\/a> <a title=\"foryou\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/foryou?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#foryou<\/a> <a title=\"adoption\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/adoption?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#adoption<\/a> <a title=\"stepparentadoption\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/stepparentadoption?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#stepparentadoption<\/a> <a title=\"family\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/family?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#family<\/a> <a title=\"\u266c original sound - Ovewon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7244982414857079595?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Ovewon<\/a><\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the video, the little boy, Jameson, is swimming in the pool, when Overturn jumps in, despite having a broken leg. After playing for a bit in the pool together, Overturn whispers, &#8220;I&#8217;m your dad now.&#8221; Jameson&#8217;s jaw immediately drops, before he squealed with joy and wrapped his arms around his dad. Both of them appeared to be emotional, as Overton whispered, &#8220;It&#8217;s over, buddy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Overton posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ovewon\/video\/7245415904966708523\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow-up video<\/a>, captioned, &#8220;My best friend in the whole entire world&#8230; he&#8217;s now officially my son!&#8221; In the video, Jameson records, saying, &#8220;I love YOU! You&#8217;re the best dad in the whole wide world, and you are the best dad. And I will always love you, with all my heart. And I will always love you, for you, forever and ever and ever, for the rest of existence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/embed?id=100393368\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The father-son duo <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WNT\/video\/stepdad-makes-big-splash-family-announcement-100393368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared on ABC News<\/a> with a message for other families going through a similar adoption process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t give up,&#8221; Overton said. &#8220;It was incredibly difficult, incredibly challenging, but when you just follow your heart, you just know the right thing to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He further wrote about the impact their story has had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chrisoverton.co\/posts\/pfbid0ym6Xpx7NH2jpzkwY8cyBs3xvXqqca9sZioTVAF4qLnW9jk8e3VppdZWqoczkqD2wl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicly on Facebook<\/a>. &#8220;I can\u2019t tell you how full my heart is watching how many people have had their hearts touched by such a beautiful act of love,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Here\u2019s my truth: we wanted to quit so many times. The amount of physical pain I endured just to try and pay for this and not go bankrupt was at a level at which I never knew was possible. [A]nd there was nothing I could do. I could either quit and go out on disability and suffer no matter what, or I could fight. And we did just that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/target-petition\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=lan_website&amp;utm_content=target_petition\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-292702\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Target petition\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-768x198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-500x129.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a little boy&#8217;s emotional reaction to learning his adoption had been finalized has gone viral. 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