In Heartwarming Move, Students Show Up to Classmate's Adoption Ceremony

In a heartwarming move, students showed up to their classmate’s adoption ceremony. The little ones looked on as one of their buddies was officially adopted. Watch the short but tear-jerking clip to see and hear more about the child being legally adopted and about the special audience members.

All children deserve a happy, safe and loving place to call home. They have a right to be with people – a family - who will look after them and tend to their needs. Who wouldn’t want that? Those are situations and environments in which children can and will blossom and thrive.

Living in a safe environment and being around good, trustworthy and decent people shouldn’t be too much to ask, right? However, sadly, that is not the reality for far too many children. Many children throughout the country are removed from their homes for whatever reason and placed in foster homes. Once in the foster system, many then bounce from one home to another until they are 18. At that point, they are expected to live on their own, without having ever received any guidance or instruction.

But as a clip posted on YouTube shows, one young man will no longer be moved from foster home to foster home. That’s because he was officially adopted.

“I’ll happily approve this adoption and grant your name change,” the judge said, as the room erupted with a round of applause.

To make that special moment even sweeter, the little guy’s classmates were on hand to witness him get adopted.  As the clip mentions, nearly every one of his 50 classmates was in attendance to watch the 11-year-old get adopted.

When talking about what it meant to have his classmates there to see him get adopted, the young man got choked up.

“It was very fun and very emotional,” the 11-year-old said. “And I had a great time, and I appreciate all my friends coming with me.”

Proverbs 22:6 “If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old, he will not be turned away from it.”