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Credit: Bob Self/ Florida Times-Union Author: Florida Times-Union, Beth Reese Cravey Published: 7:22 PM EST December 24, 2020 Updated: 7:41 PM EST December 24, 2020
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. Her grandchild s question was simple and yet full of import. What s an adoption?
Mary Kinney, 50, who raised four children of her own, was about to adopt six of her 11 grandchildren. Their parents struggled with substance abuse and domestic violence and the children had been abused and neglected. In 2017 state authorities removed seven children; one with special needs was with an aunt, the other six, ages 3 to 11, were with Kinney.
What s an adoption?
Mary Kinney, 50, who raised four children of her own, was about to adopt six of her 11 grandchildren. Their parents struggled with substance abuse and domestic violence and the children had been abused and neglected. In 2017 state authorities removed seven children; one with special needs was with an aunt, the other six, ages 3 to 11, were with Kinney.
She had been involved in their lives since they were born, but now they were together all the time. And the step they were about to take, moving from foster care to adoption, was permanent. She worried about their emotional scars.