Man shares beautiful moments with foster children making people believe that 'family finds you'

Family bonding is something that we cannot replace with any other relationship. But what happens when we need our loved ones, and they are not available? During such situations, all we crave is the missing sense of security and support in our lives. No one really likes to deny help, even if it’s coming from the most unexpected quarters of society. Reflecting the same, a man, along with his wife, recently shared a powerful message that family may eventually find you even if you don’t have one. The 32-year-old u/SoDakZak on Reddit shared some heartwarming moments with his adopted children, initiating a conversation on the importance of foster parenting.

In the post, the good Samaritan revealed that he started developing an interest in foster parenting a few years ago. The man found support from his 28-year-old wife as the couple began caregiving for children deprived of parental support. A couple of years passed, and they decided to take in two foster kids for a respite weekend. Prior to that, both he and his partner had undergone foster care parenting and adoption license courses. “The first night I was reading a bedtime story to a five-year-old boy,” he recalled while sharing a beautiful picture of the family together

The portrait showed the family of four posing while holding each other’s hands as a close unit, smiling at the camera. Additionally, even for the man, their union was surprising; he never imagined that the young boy he spent time with would one day become his son. “His (the boy’s) head was laying on my heart, and when I finished, he looked up and asked, ‘Can we stay here forever, Dad?’” he added in the post, along with the adorable-looking family’s portrait. This was not the only emotional moment that inspired the couple to begin the kids’ adoption process. The very next day, the foster dad received a “brave note” from a six-year-old girl he was taking care of.

The girl, aged 6 and without any parents, handed the note to her then-temporary caregivers, asking them: “Please love me." Moreover, the child made an innocent error while writing it down on white paper. She misspelled her message by instead saying, “plez luve me“, adding a childish twist to it. Not only their now foster dad, but also the kids had never imagined that they would soon be calling each other brother and sister. “Anyways, here's my family now,” the man concluded his post with 141K upvotes, inspiring others to consider adopting children living without parents.

In the comment section, when someone asked him about his own motivation to do the same, he responded by saying, “Whether a night or a year, these kids will know what a stable, loving home should look and feel like. Often, the sadness we feel for them is nothing compared to the reality they move back to.”

u/BubblyBalkanMom replied, “I was raised in a tumultuous environment and always had it in my heart to help others. I still tell my own kids that one day I’d love to be a foster mom, and they look forward to the idea.”

“The whole story has most of us in tears,” u/Standard-Apple-2082 observed.