60-Year-Old Man Adopts 7 Teens With Rough Childhood, Shows No Sign of Slowing Down

60-Year-Old Man Adopts 7 Teens With Rough Childhood, Shows No Sign of Slowing Down
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Opportunities to adopt children used to be limited to people past the age of 50. But now this trend is changing, and one 60-year-old man has proven it—opening his heart, and his home, to six teenage kids. Not done yet, he has decided to welcome number seven into his humble abode.

For the past decade, Joe Toles, a former guidance counsellor from Queens, New York has adopted and raised teenage boys, who have had rough childhoods.