9-Year-Old Wishes for His Own ‘Family to Call Mom and Dad’ After Brother Gets Adopted

9-Year-Old Wishes for His Own ‘Family to Call Mom and Dad’ After Brother Gets Adopted
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Oklahoma brothers Braison and Jordan made headlines in 2017 because they desperately wanted to live together. The pair had been taken into the custody of the Department of Human Services as toddlers and had been living apart for two long years.

Then-5-year-old Braison and Jordan, 6 at the time, wanted nothing more than to be accepted, together, into an adoptive family home. “Oh, we like to do anything together, like bake and karate,” Jordan told KSWO in 2017, before pretending to karate-chop his grinning sibling.