‘The whole town. The whole town wants kids now!”
The case worker at the Texas Department of Family and Child Protective Services was giddy with a mixture of elation and disbelief. A pastor and his wife were in her office explaining that 22 families in the surrounding area were ready to foster children. The pastor emphasized the point that there are more couples than adorable babies available to adopt. These were Christians who longed to live the scriptural mandate to leave no one orphaned. They were stepping up for the children who had suffered deep trauma and who might otherwise be left to age out of the foster-care system and live through additional miseries.
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