{"id":18068,"date":"2024-05-15T10:13:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/?p=18068"},"modified":"2024-05-15T10:13:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:13:37","slug":"cousin-ts-founder-calls-foster-system-a-great-thing-about-america-every-child-deserves-to-be-loved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2024\/05\/cousin-ts-founder-calls-foster-system-a-great-thing-about-america-every-child-deserves-to-be-loved.html","title":{"rendered":"Cousin T’s Founder Calls Foster System a ‘Great’ Thing About America: ‘Every Child Deserves to Be Loved’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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May is National Foster Care Month in the US, and the founder of Cousin T\u2019s, a growing food brand that launched to help fill the void left by Aunt Jemima, says the foster care system that saved his life is one of the \u201cgreat\u201d things about America. Terrence Williams told Fox News Digital, \u201cI thank God that I live in a country that has a foster care system. That\u2019s the great thing about America because if I was born in another country, and I was in foster care, or if I didn\u2019t have a mother and a father, and I was born in some third-world country, I would probably be on the streets right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, thanks to the foster care system, Williams is far from where he could be. In 2021, he founded Cousin T\u2019s, a pancake mix and syrup company, and the company has since expanded into a food brand that sells everything from coffee and biscuits to fried chicken mix and hot sauce. Williams grew up in the foster care system, bouncing around from home to home until a loving family adopted him at age 15. He said that many people are hesitant to adopt teenagers but urged Americans to give it some thought.<\/p>\n

Williams said, \u201cEvery child deserves to be loved, whether it\u2019s from their\u00a0biological parents, or foster parents, or adoptive parents,\u201d Williams said.\u00a0He continued, noting that children who \u201cage out\u201d without being adopted often end up on the streets or in jail, \u201cIf I were not adopted out of the foster care system, I really do not know where I would be.\u201d He said, \u201cThey leave the system without a family, without a support group. If I were not adopted, I absolutely do not know where I would be at. But I do know, before I was adopted, bouncing from foster house to foster house, I really didn\u2019t have any guidance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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