Pittsburgh couple Rob and Steve Anderson-McLean have just become the proud dads of six siblings they adopted in a Pensylvania court.
Carlos, 14, Guadalupe, 13, Maria, 12, Selena, 10, Nasa, 9, and Max, 7, had spent five years in foster care before landing in the home of Rob & Steve. The couple discovered the six siblings last year, and knew they had found their kids.
“We saw their picture and fell in love,” said Rob. “So many sibling groups are broken up because people just want to adopt the younger children. Steve and I knew these guys needed to be together.”
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The siblings moved in with the couple in July 2018, and quickly fell in love with their new home. That came as something of a relief for Steve & Rob, who worried about how the kids might adjust to having a same-sex couple as parents. “We thought with Carlos being a teen, he might have a hard time, but it has not bothered him one bit,” Steve says.
“We feel so lucky,” Rob adds.
As for the kids, they love their new home with their official dads. “I’m not a foster kid anymore,” Carlos recently said to Steve. “I don’t have to carry that title around. I finally have a real family.”
Young Max was a bit more direct with his feelings. “The other night, Max, our 7-year-old, looks at me and goes, ‘I’m adopted,'” Steve says. “I nodded and he said, ‘You can’t get unadopted right?’ And I had to reassure him that he will always be our son.”
Frankly, this is the kind of parenting that someone like Straight Pride mom Mylinda Mason should take note of. It’s what love really looks like.
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GayEGO
Wonderful news! Good luck to the parents and their children!
Chrisk
I’m glad to see a story about this instead of another wealthy gay couple and their narcissistic need to raise another pound puppy kid.
CurtisIsTheOne
THIS is just one of many reasons why I am SO ‘effing proud of the LGBTQ community. It takes a special kind of love to adopt an entire family. KUDOS to them. This makes my heart go boom.
TDQ
What fabulous people. And now a loving family. Love this story.
djmcgamester
Wow, that is outstanding! Giving them a home and keeping the siblings together is above and beyond what pretty much anyone would do. That couple should be held up as an example to others.
dinard38
Awesome story. Kudos to them. They’ll have their hands full with six. I adopted two boys, 9 and 6 as a single parent. They were 10 handfuls. Haha.
It’s amazing to see this couple take on an entire sibling group to keep them together.
rodzilla
THIS IS IT! This is what anyone, living or dead, who has fought hard for HUMAN RIGHTS over the years hoped for. In fact,I am going to copy the photo so I can look at those joyful faces when ever I need a boost!