Barry Farmer spent a lot of his life in foster care and pulled himself up by the bootstraps. He decided to help out people just like himself.
Farmer was only 21 when he adopted his first son. He says, “I look in the mirror all the time, and if you would have told me 10 years ago that this would happen, I wouldn’t believe you. I wished to be a father, but it wasn’t going to be this soon.”
He’s only 30 now but he’s got three great kids. “My oldest has been calling me Dad since the day I got him,” says Farmer.
“I really didn’t know how to respond to it — I was so young at the time. And I just said, ‘OK, I guess we’re gonna do this. I guess this is the role that I must play now.’ Knowing that the adoption was very final — that means I’m finally his father. He accepted me as his father. So those moments are unforgettable.”
Farmer says he treats him just like his own kids because that’s exactly what they are. They are his kids. “There are a lot of firsts to the experience as well: You can still have your first bike ride, your first trip to the beach, first roller coaster, first day of school. All of that can be experienced through foster care adoptions.”
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