Foster Parents Refuse To Separate Five Siblings, Ask For Adoption Papers
Raising children is no easy feat, but it’s a task Wil and Julie Rom are willing to take on.
They raised five young children, all related, for a few years. They didn’t want the children to be separated, so they decided to take them all home and adopted all five in July 2017.
The Roms went from being known as the kids’ foster parents to their actual parents when they decided to adopt all of them and live together in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area. The children were of different ages, with the youngest being 2 years old and the oldest being 12 years old. All of them are either siblings or half-siblings, as they all have the same biological mother.
The kids include 12-year-old William, 9-year-old Truth, 6-year-old Mariana, 3-year-old Keyora and 2-year-old KJ. The parents explained that there was no way they could separate them, so they knew they needed to fight to make sure they could keep them all and fight to keep them together.
Wil and Julie took their case to the Hamilton County Probate Court to meet with Hamilton County Judge Ralph Winkler, who has continued to help other families stay together by approving adoption papers. The Roms hoped that they could adopt all five children. Read on to learn more about this moving story of how a family’s determination to stay together has brought them closer together than before.
“No way we were going to split them up,” Julie said, speaking with WKRC in July 2017.
She and her husband did everything in their power to make sure they kept all five foster children together. “We can’t separate them, it’s about the kids,” Wil said. Now, the foster children are simply known as their own children following the adoption papers being filed successfully.
Wil and Julie adopted the children between 2014 and 2016 before they decided to adopt all five of them at once. “There is never a second guess,” explained Wil. “It’s a package, a package deal.”
Judge Ralph Winkler oversaw the case and approved of the adoption.
“The kids would miss each other if we had to separate them and most of the time they do get separated, which is a sad thing for the children,” he said. “But these kids get to stay together forever.”
Friends, family members and a former teacher of the two eldest children were present to support the family and share the happy moment. Ann Boyle, a former teacher for the children, said, “I look at these two boys right now and they are alive. Their eyes lit up with surprise.”
In the end, the Roms and five children were officially a unified family.
They get an upgrade not only in their home life but also in their home. Julie explains, “We went from a three-bedroom farmhouse to a two-story five-bedroom farmhouse. But that’s for kids. It is best to keep them together.” What a beautiful happy and united family.
Source:apost.com
