What makes a family? Love and support, for sure. People who challenge you, who tell you life’s brutal truths and then pick you up again.
And family shouldn’t end at 18, though it does for children in state custody, often removed from their biological families due to abuse and neglect. For many, foster or institutional care ends at the doorstep to adulthood.
Out into the world they step, usually alone.
That might have happened to Isaiah, Christopher and Jacob Flood if not for a Summerville couple’s calling to adopt kids who face the toughest road to finding permanent homes: foster teens with behavioral or learning challenges who have bounced from home to home, never knowing what forever means.
Read it all from the Faith and Values section of the local paper.