Jessica Benzakein knows what it’s like to be a kid without a home. When this Milwaukee, Wisconsin, resident was just 12 years old, her mother terminated her parental rights, while Benzakein was too old to have much of a chance of being adopted. After spending the rest of her adolescence in foster care, she decided to make sure other foster kids got the chance that she never did to be part of a permanent family.
That’s why, after having two kids of her own, this 46-year-old single mom has adopted two sets of brothers, six boys in total, from foster care, ages 4 to 17, making them part of her expanding family.
