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For Sharon McRoberts, growing up as an only child wasn’t about loneliness—it was about questioning what family truly meant. From a young age, she knew she would one day build a family shaped by intention, responsibility, and care rather than tradition alone.

In this episode of Roots and Branches, Sharon shares her remarkable journey through foster care, international adoption, kinship care, and biological motherhood—raising ten children across cultures, languages, and generations. Her story spans a time when adoption systems were dramatically different from today, offering a rare and honest look at how families were formed then—and what has changed now.

Sharon reflects on:

• Growing up questioning the idea of a “proper family”
• Building family through action, not biology alone
• Adoption and foster care then vs. now
• Cross-cultural adoption and integration
• The long-term realities of adoption as children become adults

This is not a fairy-tale adoption story. It’s a thoughtful, lived examination of family—how it’s built, tested, and ultimately defined over time.

This episode is for adoptive parents, foster carers, adoptees, and anyone interested in how family can be intentionally created.

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