Thursday, May 22, 2025

A mother's urgent plea to stop ICE from deporting her daughters’ birth father tomorrow

When my husband Rob and I became foster parents, and later adopted three sisters, we never expected we would think of their birth father, Kelvin MembreƱo, as the third parent in our family.

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Tuesday, May 6, 2025

My adopted daughters' biological dad is in prison. I take them to visit him and am surprised by how much we've all connected.

I adopted three daughters in 2022 after many years of fostering them. Their biological father — we call him Papa — is incarcerated for an armed robbery he committed while in the throes of addiction. He's been in prison since before his youngest girl was born.

 

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