😲 We fostered two children who had been rejected by foster families. One month later, their former foster family called and said: “Haven’t they still explained why they chose you?”
My husband and I had always dreamed of starting a family. After five years of being unable to have a child, we finally decided to adopt.
A local agency introduced us to Josie, a four-year-old little girl whom we immediately liked.
But the social worker revealed something important to us: Josie had a sixteen-year-old brother named Jace, and the two children had to be adopted together.
Several families had loved Josie, but as soon as they learned about her teenage brother, they backed out.
Yet we didn’t turn away. We adopted both of them.
One month later, their former foster family called me and said:
— Haven’t they explained to you why they chose you?
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Intrigued, I asked her what she meant.
That’s when I understood that it wasn’t only my husband and me who had chosen the children: Josie and Jace had chosen us too.
I called our social worker, Rebecca, who revealed that Jace had asked to come into our family from the very first time we met.
But the reason was even more touching: it was Josie who had chosen us.
She had noticed that families were interested in her, but refused to take her teenage brother.
Jace simply wanted to protect his little sister’s choice and make sure that she would finally find a family that would love both of them.
