David and his partner Conrad are champions of LGBT adoption and advocates for children in foster care - trying hard to find every child a good home. As a gay family trying to adopt from the foster case system (in which over 100,000 children are currently without families), David was sadden and frustrated by the difficulties they faced. As a result he started Families Like Ours which offers completely free classes and services to anyone who wants to help change a child's life.
Families Like Ours has a 75% successful placement rate which is the highest of any agency.
I would really like to give him a big hug.
"It's unacceptable that families are faced with barriers that are put in their way because of a myth, a misunderstanding, miscommunication ... preventing a child from having a family just because (other people) just don't like what that family looks like."
"That child sitting in foster care year after year after year is not going to their social worker and saying, 'I only want a mom-and-dad home."
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