Not all heroes have capes. They might merely decide to have a huge impact on children’s life. One of them is Lamont Thomas,

who made the decision to adopt five siblings simultaneously in Buffalo, New York, in October 2019.

Due to unfavorable perceptions of single adults’ capacity to raise children in the absence of a motherly figure,

adoption is frequently challenging for them and even less likely for unmarried guys. Fortunately, Lamont has raised

a lot of kids throughout his life, whether they are his biological kids or kids he is foster parenting.

Over 33% of Americans have thought about adopting, yet only 2% have actually adopted a child or children, according to the Adoption Network.

An estimated 140,000 children are adopted by American families each year, or around one out of every fifty kids.

Adoption can in a variety of forms, including private and open adoption. The former suggests that the biological

parents of the adopted child are no longer active in their life and that the adoptive parents are the child’s only caregivers.

The latter choice is more adaptable and enables the youngster to keep in touch with both his or her birth parents and adoptive parents.

There are many obligations associated with choosing to start a family, but it is obvious that Lamont’s love transcends any potential issues.

His justification for taking in the five siblings, who ranged in age from one to five, was simple: they would have been split up otherwise.

Lamont Thomas has always been devoted to supporting young people. He demonstrated this once more on October 17,

2019, when he adopted five siblings. Lamont is now the proud father of 12 children as a result of the adoption’s completion.

According to this 2019 story from ABC News, the children Lamont recently adopted are five, four, three, two, and one years old.

The single father had seven previous kids before this adoption. This is on top of the numerous foster children he has cared for over the previous 20 years.

Lamont’s journey to parenthood started in 2000 when he decided to become a foster parent in order to take care

of a particular friend’s child. Lamont has two biological children, Anthony and LaMonica, who are also part of his brood.

Lamont has never refused to accept a child. Whatever the case, Lamont obviously makes an effort to put others before himself.

Germayne and Tremayne, twins, were adopted by Lamont in 2007, and then Jamie and German. According to ABC News,

Lamont adopted Michael, the first child he had ever fostered, after these first four adoptions.
Lamont told CBS News, ‘I just hated to see him in the system. He was a good young man.’

Michael has established a nice life for himself and is obviously appreciative of Lamont for taking him in.

He is a nurse right now, according to CBS News. In his own words, ‘I don’t believe that I would be the person that I am today without the morals that he instilled in me, the extended family that I have now.’

As a father figure, Lamont has either taken on the tremendous responsibility of adopting the children he takes

in or has raised them as foster children until they are able to leave the system and go back to their family.

Prior to learning that one of his former foster children’s children needed to be taken in in order to prevent a breakup, Lamont believed he had completed adopting children.

He said, ‘They had them in four different homes and cities,’ in an interview with Good Morning America in 2019. They deserved to be raised like siblings, and that was my battle.

Jamel, 4, Nakia, 3, Major, 2, and Michaela, 1, were placed in different families, as were Zendaya, 5, Jamel, and Nakia.

Lamont was heartbroken, but he was determined that the siblings would get back together. Lamont said the following in a CBS News interview:

They deserved to grow up together, so I had no choice but to help them.

The children are now being raised by Lamont alone, but he has emphasized that he is not doing so alone because he has a large support network of relatives and friends.

He is also open to the notion of dating, but only with someone who shares his commitment to raising the kids.

Lamont obviously gets a lot of energy from these little ones, and he is ecstatic to be able to take care of them.

Hopefully, his tale will encourage others to consider adopting or fostering needy kids.