His 50th birthday Althea Cataldo, a Brooklyn resident, is unlikely to ever forget. The day of the «Golden» jubilee, the woman was waiting for a big surprise: her 200 foster children, many of whom she had not seen in years, all gathered together and organized a big party to congratulate the birthday girl.
You probably have a question: how the woman managed to adopt 200 children? The fact that in the US there is a system of Foster care, which in its form resembles so familiar with all the legal institution as adoption, but in many ways different from him.
The essence of Foster care is its short-term nature and the lack of foster parents the rights to take the child regarding decisions related to education, religion and medicine, without consultation with his biological parents or the child.
Foster parents in the system of Foster care for care for minors on a fee basis, receiving from the government the remuneration and reimbursement of many expenses.
After spending some time in this family, the child then returns home or is adopted by other parents. Although it could be his father and mother in the system of Foster care.
So Althea and her husband Mario became temporary foster parents for 200 children. This happened for 20 years. All this time in their two-story house, located in the Brooklyn district of Bedford–Stuyvesant, has always been children’s voices.
For some children, they later became foster parents on a regular basis, that is, adopted them.
Answering the question how did Althea and Mario turned out to raise so many children, one of them, Raymond Sanchez, said it was out of love.
