Real Life
Q How do you make a happy family?
A: FOR ONE MOM, the answer was to open her heart and home to kids in need
DROP BY KATE WHITE’S HOUSE on any Saturday and you’ll see nothing short of pure joy: Kate cradling infant Ella while fixing 11-year-old Amia’s hair and keeping an eye on toddler Gracie, who is entertaining her tween brothers Rian and Ethan by banging on a toy piano. It’s a familiar scene, but this is no ordinary family: It’s a mix of foster, adopted and biological children under one loving roof. And if Kate has her way, more families will look like hers. Kate felt the call to adopt and foster one day in 2004 after watching a documentary about orphans in Asia. “I was in tears,” she says. She and her husband, Don, already the parents of four biological children, adopted a baby from South Korea a few years later. “When I held Ethan in my arms for the first time, I knew he was meant to be ours,” says Kate of the 7-month-old who instantly stole her heart. Within a year, she and Don knew they wanted to adopt again. By now, Kate had learned that more than 400,000 children, many with special needs, were in foster care in the U.S.
This story is from the February 2018 edition of Good House Keeping - US.
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