17 People Who Reserved A Special Place In Their Hearts For Their Adopted Children

A boy from Ukraine was born with a cleft lip and palate and left in an orphanage. When the other children were taken to the beach in the summer, the boy was sent to the hospital. Nobody knows what would have happened if he hadn’t been adopted by an American family. Now, Jeane and Paul Briggs have 6 biological and 32 adopted children. And this “boy” is already over 30 years old and had a beautiful life story.

The following reports, which awesome.club decided to publish, show that adoption is always an act of conquest and that it should not be taken lightly. With love, patience and respect, however, it is possible to overcome any barrier. So follow along!

I adopted a teenage boy, who had a very complicated family. When he was still living with his family, I would bring him and his sister various sweets, fruits and vegetables. The biological mother took everything for herself and hid it from her son—as the stepfather told me. Later, it turned out that there was not much food left for the boy, as the mother and sister ate it all. After coming to live with us, he would go into the kitchen and stuff his pants pocket with fruits and sweets. I cried for a long time when I understood the reason for the despair. Afterwards, I taught him not to do that anymore: if he wanted something, we would have to buy it. It took a long time for him to feel loved and wanted by us. © Majja Borgwardt / FacebookIn 2013, I was pregnant with my first child. In the last few weeks, I started dreaming about the baby. And closer to birth, I dreamed that I was walking along a pier carrying a girl in my arms. I knew she was my daughter. Next to me, a 2-year-old girl was holding my hand: she was my daughter too! The three of us walked slowly, enjoying the horizon. I had the image of a beautiful orange sunset in my mind and, further ahead, there was a brunette girl of about 8-10 years old sitting on a bench. She got up and said: “Mommy, what took you so long?! I was tired of waiting!” I didn’t know that this dream would one day come true. Six years later, we adopted Polina — that same brunette girl. © nastmel / Pikabu

“A year and a half since I was adopted. My mother and I”

16 years ago, I adopted a 4-year-old boy and became a single mother. We both lived very happily until the day other people told my son that he was adopted when he was 11 or 12 years old. My boy came home crying a lot and I had to convince him otherwise: he was too young to understand. In his 20s, I decided to tell the truth myself, during a conversation we had after discovering he had an addiction. I gave the biological mother’s data and, basically, a choice. My son spent the night crying in his room and I in mine. In the morning he said to me: “I have only one mother. Is that you. I do not need anyone else!” After that day, he was finally able to kick the habit for good. © Tatiana Pati / Facebook Last year, I adopted a 5-year-old boy, who is autistic and non-verbal. His mother has serious psychological disorders, and the little one spent his whole life living on the street before being taken in by me. It was November when the police found him wandering the streets wearing only a diaper. I love him more than I thought I could love anyone. I sacrificed a lot to become his father (I’m only 27 years old): it’s hard to find a nanny who knows how to take care of him; he can’t go to the market or anywhere noisy and stuff like that. But I adjusted and I don’t regret it for a second. © meepmopmeepmop / RedditI adopted a 6-year-old Asian girl, about the same age as my biological daughter. She had a very hard time showing her emotions, but she persevered, worked hard in school, got a great college degree, and then married a great guy. She insisted on keeping her maiden name because “it was so hard to find that name”. My girl still doesn’t open up much, but she’s conquering the world. She is my daughter just like my biological children. I love her so much and am very proud of her. © Pablo-on-35-meter / Reddit

My neighbors, over 30, were unable to have a baby for a long time and decided to adopt a 4-year-old boy. The ladies of the building heard about this news and soon began to gossip. After three years, my neighbor became pregnant and gave birth to a baby. Then, one day, the boy arrived at the entrance of the building, and one of these ladies called him and said:
“Ah, poor orphan, how unlucky you were!
He didn’t understand the comment and asked what it was about. The answer was:
“Your adoptive parents now have a real daughter and are going to return you to the orphanage.
Everyone in the building must have heard the child’s cries. When the father got home, he went to tell the ladies and tell them never to do such a thing again, but they paid no attention. Fortunately, the boy grew up happy, today he is working, got married and has two children. © Puhpuhpuh / PikabuWe adopted our oldest daughter when she was about 8 years old. My mother-in-law and my mother complained that it wouldn’t work, but they didn’t say anything to the girl. Today, Nika is 16 years old, graduated from school early and is in her first year of college. She chose Medicine. Grandmothers have long forgotten that their granddaughter is not biological, and they love to pamper and praise her for everything. For us, she is our life, as are my other two youngest children. © Marina Russovskaya / Facebook

“After finding out I was adopted. I graduated from school a year early, won a scholarship and a student of the year award.”

My director Gal’s only child passed away. She was terribly shaken and was constantly nervous and stressed. Gal and her husband decided to take in a girl they saw in an orphanage. “She was mine, and that was it”, said the director about the little🇧🇷 They got to know her, talked and the husband realized that the girl had a friend and that he wouldn’t leave without her. How would a 52-year-old couple take both of them? Still, they took it. Many years have passed, the girls are amazing and love their parents very much. The oldest has already graduated and is working, and the youngest is still studying. And although it was difficult at first, today, parents cannot imagine life without the two of them. © Elena Neviditsina / FacebookMy wife and I are no longer young, so we decided to adopt an older child. We took in a very destabilized 13-year-old girl. She hated the world for the situation she was in; of her mother, who had abandoned her; of the system, which had “forgotten” her for so many years. She fought with us all the time and, when we thought about giving up everything, we asked ourselves: what if she was our daughter? We moved on, then, fighting for her. After a year and a half, I was driving, when all of a sudden she blurted out, “I don’t want to go back to my biological mother. I want you to be my father”. And I, a man that size, started to cry. © AberrantCheese / Reddit

One of our children was 5 years old, the other 3, and we decided to adopt a girl. We were in France when we fell in love with a little girl with mesmerizing blue eyes and beautiful thick curls. But she wasn’t ready to leave the people she knew and that culture. After we took her to London, she was crying, screaming, and I even had to show her the adoption documents to prove that the girl had not been kidnapped. In the beginning, it was very difficult, as our (mine and my husband’s) knowledge of French was very limited, and her brothers knew nothing of the language. But the little one grew up and today she became a foster mother, like me. We can’t even imagine a life without her. © Anonymous / QuoraI have a friend, Paula, who is quite spoiled by her father. One day, I was at her house when the doorbell rang. I was asked to open it as everyone was busy cooking and I was the only one doing nothing. I opened it – it was an older man.
— Hi, I came to see my daughter.
— Sabrina? (I thought it was our other friend’s father who was with us)
“No, Paula…
— But Paula has a father, and he’s in the kitchen now.
At that time, my friend approached and asked the man to come in. I was totally lost and afterwards I was able to talk to her alone. I asked who that man was. The answer was: “My father is my father. That man is just the person who made me, my biological father.” © GvinevraFlame / Pikabu

“For Father’s Day, I received a handcrafted gift from my beautiful wife and two wonderful stepchildren. They made me truly happy”

My friend had two daughters, but soon her husband passed away. She got a new partner and had a daughter with him. Throughout his life, he said he never felt any difference between girls. All three are his daughters, and that’s it. Equal rewards and punishments for all. The girls even forgot that they had different fathers. At 8 or 9 years old, they screamed in the street, calling for “father”. The neighbor then called them and asked: “Why do you call him father, you are not his daughters!” The little ones cried and ran to their mother, who confirmed everything and said that they themselves should decide what they want to call him. She also asked, “Did he ever hit you?” – “No”; “Did he always give money to buy dolls?” – “Ever”. And after the questions, one of them shouted: “I will continue to call him dad!” © superneo / PikabuI’m 25 years old and I was driving with my dad beside me. Then he said:
“It was a morning like this when I found out my father was adopted.
I was so shocked that I almost caused a traffic accident. He continued:
— I was in the 9th grade of school when my aunt came to pick me up and told me that my mother had married for the second time. The new husband adopted me and changed my last name. Since he was in the military, we were traveling all over the country.
My father also said that he even ran away from home and disappeared for a month, until some army officers found him and took him back home. Only after some time did he understand that a father is the one who spends his whole life next to him and is there to raise and support you. © asyarmak / Pikabu

“I really wanted to share this. This is my amazing dad who adopted me.”

When my mother was still a medical student, she practiced at a pediatric surgery center. Once, the night shifts were graced by the arrival of a beautiful one-year-old boy, who had been left in the street. He had one leg longer than the other. This sweetheart couldn’t sleep and always “helped” the nurses. People gave him papers to play with and, for some reason, the little one couldn’t take the smile off his face. After some time, one of the interns adopted him. She said a boy like…