Although it goes largely unacknowledged, there truly is so much work involved in becoming a parent.
Just trying to get pregnant alone can be a real struggle for couples who have to deal with various health issues or complications.
And that’s without taking into account the difficulty of pregnancy and the subsequent childbirth! So it is without a doubt an event of much relief and joy when you finally have your newborn child safe and sound in your arms. Read the full story here ▶
While many of us tend to relegate love stories to romance novels and fairy tales, the story of Howard Foster and Myra Clark may soften even the most skeptic among us.
The year was 1967 and these high school sweethearts were deeply in love. Unfortunately for these lovebirds, racism took its toll on their plans for their future.
The pressure of a black man in love with a white woman resulted in a warm, but painful breakup. Read the full story here ▶
For the lovely couple, Shelly and Jeremy, what should have been one of the happiest moments of their lives took a near fatal turn.
The unfortunate woman reportedly had to go in for an emergency c-section, but during the surgery, a blood clot broke in her leg, sending her into a coma.
The couple’s newborn daughter, Rylan, was alive and healthy but doctors told Jeremy that his wife just wasn’t waking up. The doctors explained to him that they put Shelly on the ‘last chance’ ventilator. They told her husband that they tried all the medicine and machines they had, but were not seeing any progress. Read the full story here ▶>
The foster system is important to many displaced children, and foster families have huge responsibilities on their backs.
Unfortunately, as with all good things, there are some people who misuse and abuse the foster system in order to avail of government funding.
One such cruel foster parent is Lyubov Korotkova, a Russian woman in her 40s from Magadan who was tasked with caring for an 11-year-old orphan boy named Valery Kondourov. Read the full story here ▶
A diagnosis of cancer changed her daughter’s life forever at the age of four. We can be reminded of our mortality but it is confusing to see a child face a diagnosis of cancer.
Children will have the realization of their mortality stay with them for a life time. Bullies can make it worse as one mother knows because her child dealt with bone cancer before entering school.
A little girl was only four years old when she got a diagnosis of Ewing’s Sarcoma. The child had never been to school or rode a bicycle and spent her time in a tutu. Read the full story here ▶
When people go to see a movie at a theater, they expect that others will be quiet aside from a little laughter or gasps during certain parts of the film.
Noah is a 5-year-old boy who is autistic.
His mother took him and his siblings to see “Dumbo” one afternoon because they had been wanting to see the movie and because they wanted to spend time together. Read the full story here ▶
Amy McAloon has dealt with bullying for over three years – all because she’s autistic.
On the 25th of March, it all came to a head for the 14-year-old when her classmates from Alsop High School held her down and beat her up violently inside a classroom.
Video footage of the fight was horrifyingly spread across Snapchat and Instagram. Read the full story here ▶
Love is incredible and can make people do things that isn’t deemed as “normal”.
This is exactly the feelings that Cecile Eledge had. At 61 years old, she decided to give her son, Matthew Eledge, and his husband a chance to have their own child.
Without hesitation, she volunteered to be their surrogate. This couple from Omaha, Nebraska couldn’t have been happier. Their story quickly spread across social media. Read the full story here ▶
Let’s be honest – you’ve probably texted a wrong number once or twice in your lifetime, right? Well, ladies and gentlemen, you may have even received a confusing text from a stranger, only to receive another one that read, “Sorry, wrong number!”
It’s not every day that you get to change someone’s life when you type in the wrong digit and Syd did just that. She was trying out dresses for an event. She wanted someone’s opinion on the one she had picked out, so she decided to text photos of it to one of her friends.
Unfortunately, she sent the photos to the wrong number. Instead of just letting her know a complete stranger had received her texts, Tony, decided to have some fun. Read the full story here ▶
Commuting daily can be a tedious task for most of us. Sgt. Scott from the NCSO commutes a lot and certainly understands the pains of it, thankfully he has a nice cruiser to drive around the streets.
He spotted a woman with a challenging commute, he had seen her many times as he drove by. He stopped by and decided to talk to her, and this was a life turning discussion.
Sgt. Scott said that at the intersection one day, he saw a young female walking by, and the weather was very cold, that day. He says her name was Jaelesya and “I could see by her dress that she worked for Bojangles,” which was more than six miles away. Read the full story here ▶