Gino VanGundy lived in more than 20 foster homes in 14 years as a child. Placement after placement, VanGundy wished someone would keep and love him forever.
"I wouldn't have cared if my adoptive parents were a married man and woman, two gay guys or a single woman," said VanGundy, now 36. "If you have just one person who believes in you, you are going to make it."
With this intimate knowledge of foster children's needs, VanGundy and his partner, Chris Moffet-VanGundy, are adopting a 16-year-old foster girl whose birth parents are dead, giving her and her yellow Labrador, Reynolds, a permanent home -- and two dads who promise to keep and love her forever.
Today, the San Francisco Department of Human Services is starting a campaign [Adoption SF] to recruit more people like the VanGundys to adopt foster kids, especially teens, who are among the hardest to place. The agency sees gays and lesbians as an underutilized pool of potential parents.
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