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Empty Nester Adopts Seven Siblings After Tragedy Struck with Pam Willis
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In 2019, Pam and her husband Gary were about to be empty nesters when she saw a story on Facebook about a sibling group of seven whose parents were killed in a car crash. They were desperately needing a family who could keep them all together. It was then that she and Gary made the life changing decision to become new parents again after raising five of their own. Later, their adoption story went viral with an Instagram video that got shared by Kristin Bell and Michael Buble, among many others, propelling her following to more than 100,000 virtually overnight.
Their story was featured in People Magazine and Pam has been a guest on Kate Hudson's podcast and Jada Smith's talk show. With her new found platform, Pam is strong advocate in the foster care space and guides others on all things related to foster parenting and adoption. Pam's heart is to give kids in foster care the best home they can get and stresses the role of love in the process of healing. She talks about her experience of being a foster and adoptive mother and shares about the need to learn and seek help continuously. She also shares about the encouragement she found in her church and her close-knit relatives and friends and neighbors. Pam also talks about how she continues to engage the public on the issue of foster care and adoption through social media, specifically, Instagram. She stresses the fact that every person is capable of making an impact on the life of a kid in foster care and calls for people to really consider becoming foster and adoptive parents or finding ways of supporting those who are.
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