Seeing Double: Couple Adopts Two Sets of Twins in Desperate Attempt to Stop Separation
When Karen and Tobias Thompson were married in 2014, they had a combined total of seven adult children, 28 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. “There’s never been a dull moment,” Karen told Fox News of their…
When Karen and Tobias Thompson were married in 2014, they had a combined total of seven adult children, 28 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
“There’s never been a dull moment,” Karen told Fox News of their Family. “But my grandkids, I can send them back home.”
The couple, both 55 and from Cincinnati, Ohio, said their kids are all doing well and thriving — but they had no idea they were about to start over from square one and grow their immediate Family.
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“We had an empty house, an empty nest, and then we ended up with the four,” Karen said.
It started when the couple found out that Karen’s twin niece and nephew, Wilnya and William, now 14, were experiencing difficulties at home in 2015.
So they welcomed them in.
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A year later, they found out that the twins’ half-sisters — another set of twins, Sharnia and Sharleathea, now 9 years old — were being bounced around in the foster system.