The day I met the Village ladies, I felt such a sense of relief and gratitude wash over me. Very few of my family and friends had understood or supported my decisions to foster, then adopt teens from state care. Those decisions had in fact turned my life upside down, and introduced me to situations and scenarios which were totally foreign to me. (I wish they were still foreign to me!) From the outside looking in, my life changes did not appear to be positive ones. For every m