Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son

wrecked_em

A great, beautiful story! :)

singingwolfboy

https://archive.ph/aE9Xg

FartyMcFarter

Everything about this story is so satisfying, that if I read it in a lesser source I would be doubting it. The person finding the baby was the person who eventually adopted him. The judge asking the guy to adopt the baby was the same judge that performed the wedding of the couple doing the adoption. Just so many great details.

globular-toast

This made me want to listen to 2Pac.

sevenseacat

What a lovely story, what a lucky family to have found each other!

wazoox

That's a good heartwarming story to start the weekend :)

Digit-Al

I find this story slightly odd. I'm not trying to suggest it's not true, I have trust in the Guardian not to print falsehoods; but do they really offer abandoned babies to just anyone in America? Here in the UK, I used to work with a guy many years ago who was trying to adopt. He and his wife had to go through months and months of vetting and paperwork to be allowed to become adopted parents. You basically have to prove that you are fit to be a parent. And yet in this story a court basically says "hey, you wanna adopt this baby you found? Yeah? Here you go." Sounds like this guy I knew should have moved to America. He and his wife could have just pulled up to an orphanage, said "I'll take that one", and been parents immediately - if this story is anything to go by.

throwaway2046

Inspiring to see the couple accomplish this and in the early 2000s no less. Wishing them all the best. If you haven't already, watch the animated short film[1] by Zombie Studio. It was my introduction to this case before reading the article. [1] https://vimeo.com/1092249009

pilooch

Reminded me of the recent, and excellent, Canadian tv series Empathy, with the main character is found in a garbage can by his adoptive parents.

perfmode

> Not everything has been easy. When he was a teenager, he had a lot of questions about his birth mother. He wanted to put up posters in the subway, and we would notice him looking at strangers’ faces to see if they looked like him. He’s made peace with the situation now, though. Felt this deeply.

BigTTYGothGF

Having gone through the foster parent licensing process in another state I'm shocked at how fast things moved in this case.

adwi

I insist you listen to them tell it: https://thisislovepodcast.com/episode-33-on-the-way-to-dinne...

foozebox

Well does Kevin read Hacker News?

stgo

Anywhere but HN, I'd have written this off as clickbait and kept scrolling. Amazing story

barbs

> "Now, Kevin is an incredible young man and we are tremendously proud of him. He works out of state as a software developer" Half-expecting a comment from him here on HN