Dax is a 16-year-old who has experienced the heartbreak faced by far too many youth in the foster care system. Seven years after being adopted, this teen was told it wasn’t going to work out when Dax came out as LGBTQ. He says, the adoptive parents stopped loving him anymore because of who he is.
He thinks that maybe he needs a same-sex couple or at least someone who is understanding about his sexual identification.
He has been featured on a News segment in Oklahoma.
In a Patheos piece, I read –
A family adopts a 9 yr old child, cares for them 7 years and then kicks them out because they are LGBTQ. They ask “Who does that ? What is wrong with people ?
And I get it. My sons live a rather isolated life at the moment due to where we live in sparsely populated rural forested land and because they have received all of their education at home. One of my sons may eventually “come out”. There is more than one person in my husband’s family who has such a sexual identification.
The news segment doesn’t tell us anything about Dax’s former family or whether religion came into their decision.
However, a couple of nights after the segment aired, a woman wrote the station via Facebook.
“We are a LGBTQ+ supportive DHS approved foster/adoptive home. We are open for teen placement. WE HAVE CHICKENS !! (Dax has raised and loves chickens).
The News channel has put her in contact with the child’s case worker, so there may be a happy ending to this story.
I got some of this information from The Friendly Atheist at Patheos, Hemant Mehta author.
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