Emily Richey is a graduate of Pace University NYC. She has written and edited for multiple online platforms, including Love What Matters. She spends her free time petting stray cats.
‘If he leaves, I will be wrecked.’ We fought together against the trauma he’d faced.’: Single foster mom says ‘this is just the beginning’ after adopting 2 sons
“For over a year, I raised brothers while living in limbo. I did every single mom thing—including falling deeply in love.”
‘I frantically googled ‘jerky movements in 8-month-old.’ My intuition knew something wasn’t right.’: Mom says son with Angelman Syndrome was ‘meant for us’
“By his 1-month well-check, my once plump little newborn was looking frail. Not only was he not gaining weight, but he was losing it. I felt my baby was starving and it was MY fault.”
‘We’re having a hard time finding placement for this little girl. We don’t quite know what’s wrong with her yet.’: Couple adopt special needs daughter from foster care
“There we were, sitting in a parking lot, meeting our daughter for the first time. She had the biggest eyes and was so tiny. My heart pounded. I knew at this moment we’d love her.”
‘Who’s going to be my dad?’ I didn’t even get to say goodbye. He was already gone.’: Woman shares grief of losing father at age 9, ‘He was my first true love’
“I entered the hospital room to see my dad lying lifeless, his feet cold. I felt sick to my stomach. In everything I’ve done in life, he was always missing.”
‘Sitting on the same couch where we got my mom’s diagnosis, I got my son’s.’: Woman becomes multigenerational caregiver, ‘They were made for each other’
“I laughed in disbelief. At 27, I was a caregiver twice.”
‘He was in tears. ‘Baby, it’s bad news.’ It was our last conversation. He was unable to talk the very next day.’: Widowed mother ‘piecing life back together’ after tragic loss of husband
“I watched my gorgeous husband’s body betray him. I held my breath, waiting for him to take another, but it didn’t happen. The woman I was died with him.”
‘My sister is dead. Her babies… I don’t even have money to feed them.’ Their mom was murdered in front of them by their father. They had no one.’: Woman adopts brothers
“He sent me a video of his sister’s lifeless body being pulled from the river. ‘We have to save these boys.’”
‘I heard her whisper, ‘This isn’t a movie… this is your life now.’ They don’t have our last name, we just ARE.’: Woman adopts 8 after feeling ’magnetically, divinely drawn’
“We learned to make Haitian legume and they learned to make Nashville hot chicken. We learned to dance Koompa and they learned to two-step. I can’t imagine us being any more family than this.”
‘I was scanning a blog when I saw his picture. My heart leaped. ‘Oh! There you are.’: After losing mother to drunk driver, woman adopts special needs son
“The brokenness I felt is how hundreds of millions of children feel. I could change this for another child. We began our journey that night.”
‘On his way home, he was hit by 3 cars and left to die in the street.’: Widow welcomes miracle baby after losing husband in hit-and-run
“In the midst of my pain and loneliness, God knew what I needed. New love crept in.”