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Two Dads And Their Experience With Foster Fatherhood

After caring for drug-addicted infants, two men became foster parents. It was hard saying goodbye to their first child, but when offered the chance to do it again they said, "How can you say no?"
Darrow Brown, 52, and Juan Calvo, 55, live in Baltimore, Md. The dads started fostering children after volunteering to take care of drug-addicted infants in 2007.

Being a dad is not just about biology.

Juan Calvo and his husband Darrow Brown know that fatherhood isn't limited to a science. In 2007, after Calvo volunteered to care for drug-addicted infants in Baltimore, he knew he wanted to do more.

So, Calvo and Brown became foster dads. The two still remember the moment they met their first child.

"The worker

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