A life spent advocating fiercely for children
His biological parents had signed a consent form placing him for adoption when he was 3 days old, and no one ever acted on it. For eight years, he lived with a family that didn't want him.
"So here I am, driving this 8-year-old who, eight years ago as a baby, could have been placed with a family but has to go through the trauma of leaving one family and moving to another," she said. "That was heart-wrenching. How do you tell a child, "Well, this is going to be better, it's a permanent family'?"
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