As she waited for her nursing shift to begin, Sharon Aikman scanned her local Indiana newspaper and felt a pang of sadness as she read the headline, "Three children abused by mother and boyfriend."
When she read the name of the mother, Aikman's heart stopped. The accused was also the biological mother of Aikman's adopted son Noah.
"My first thought was, 'Had I not adopted my son, this is what would have happened (to him),' " Aikman said. Her next thought was, "Those are Noah's sisters."
Looking back, Aikman, 49, a registered nurse, and her husband, Chuck Aikman, 52, saw this moment as the beginning of a long journey of adoption, foster parenting and, for Sharon, volunteering as a Court-Appointed Special Advocate to help children in situations of abuse or neglect.
[For more of this story, written by Nathan Sorensen, go to http://national.deseretnews.co...ind-a-safe-home.html]
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