Couple Adopts Older, Multi-Racial Children

My husband and I have been married for 5 years, and we each have two grown-and-gone children from previous marriages. I can't have anymore children and really wanted to have children with him. We decided to adopt a child that we could raise and love together. After months of discussion, we decided that our hearts were big enough to be able to love more than one adopted child. I immediately started researching sibling groups that we could adopt. We weren't being picky about race, but we were being picky about disabilities because we live so far away from the nearest hospital and the nearest doctor. As a matter of fact, it's 23 miles to the nearest grocery store. I was searching for a sibling group of 5 or less.

It took a long time and a lot of heartache because of being turned down for children we selected. We finally got a call from a caseworker who told us about the 11 year old and asked if we wanted to meet him. She indicated that he was multi-racial, born cocaine addicted and had behavior problems. We immediately said yes and couldn't wait to hear back from her. She then started telling us more about him. He had 4 other siblings, two sisters and two brothers. His oldest brother was also up for adoption although he had worse problems. All 4 of them were also born cocaine addicted. The 5 children had been adopted by a family one by one as they were born to the same mother and different fathers. How could this mother be allowed to continue having children? Anyway, their adoptive family abused all 5 children and the children were subsequently taken away from them. Their adoptive family signed a "Termination of parental rights" and then they became foster children.