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Couple Adopts Sibling Group of Eight

My husband & I adopted a sibling group of three although we would have been open to a larger one, if we had more room. I think it’s great that this couple was able to adopt all eight of these kids.

For the past seven years, Kathy and Dave Bain have opened their home and hearts to dozens of foster children who have been victims of physical abuse in their biological homes, were born with fetal alcohol syndrome or whose parents were in prison.

Last fall, when they heard that eight brothers and sisters were in need of one foster home for all of them, so they wouldn’t be separated, they opened their home again.

The couple already has four children, three of which they adopted.

Before becoming foster children, the eight children lived in a local shelter for abused and neglected children. The children’s parents had their parental rights terminated within the last year because of drug use and child neglect.

It left the children with a distrust of adults that manifests itself when most people wouldn’t expect, Dave Bain said. “In general, foster kids think of mealtimes as very stressful,” he said. “That’s when there either was no food available or the time their parents were stressed, and abuse often took place at those times.”

With the growing problem of parents addicted to alcohol and methamphetamine, the need for qualified foster and adoptive parents will only increase, David added.

The children’s social services case worker said the children are doing better than expected in their new home. “In speaking with them individually, they said they are happy where they are at,” Zboinski said. “These kids are really thriving on the attention they are getting now at home.”

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I love hearing stories like this because it reminds me of my own three children. When they were removed from their biological home, their case worker worked hard to find a home that would take all three. We’re so grateful to their former foster parents, who allowed them to remain together.

My children also suffered abuse and neglect at the hands of the people who created them. The same people that were supposed to protect and keep them safe were the ones that did the most damage.

But we always focus on the positive and because of that we’re so grateful for the people that entered their lives that made a difference.

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