Tag: fostering

Ron Danta and Danny Robertshaw recently hosted 71 dogs in their home at the same time. Ron Danta and Danny Robertshaw have been a couple for nearly 30 years, and have been rescuing dogs for almost as long. The couple, based in South Carolina, scaled up their efforts in 2005, though, after Hurricane Katrina left hundreds of pets homeless. They saved about 600 dogs from New Orleans by fostering them until they could find forever homes. Since then, Danta and Robertshaw...

A gay couple from Brighton have opened up about their experience of being foster parents for the last 22 years. Kiiran and Chris have fostered 11 young people in the city from a variety different backgrounds. The couple even adopted one of the foster children who came into their care, who has since got married and had a child of their own. The two spoke to Brighton and Hove independent about the children that they’ve helped along in there transformative journey, and...

As the UK marks LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week between 6 March to 12 March, Steven O’Reilly writes about his experience of becoming a foster parent with his partner Dan. Dan and I both come from very loving families, and we always knew we wanted to have a family of our own. Fostering felt like a great way to fulfil that desire. We started the application process with TACT (the Adolescent and Children’s Trust) in August 2013. It was a really...