If you were to call Lamont Thomas, of Buffalo, New York, “a family man,” that wouldn’t begin to explain his lifestyle. This above-and-beyond single father has taken care of 30 foster kids since the year 2000 in addition to having adopted 10 and had two others biologically. And just when you think he might be ready for a break, Thomas has “come out of retirement” to adopt five siblings under the age of 5.
At an adoption hearing in Oct. 17, 2019, where he was awarded custody of children, Thomas was happy to have kept the kids with him. “I fought for close to two and a half years just to be able to get them together, and we won, we got it,” he told WGRZ in Buffalo. After Judge Lisa Rodwin wished him and the children well, he explained, “I wanted to be the difference, make a difference by being a difference for these youth.”
