He said to me: “Mummy, you know they are safest with us, you cannot let them go anywhere else”. James, Gabriel, Emmanuel and Joey (Left to right) Many people have asked me how my older biological children feel about having 5 adopted siblings. The first time I was asked that, I wondered what exactly my response was supposed to be. I was actually caught off guard. I knew that my children didn’t really care because they were happy children but somehow that answer was not a trusted one with my friend. This friend/social worker , who asked me this, said her reason for the question was because they share everything and apparently in the end have less than they would have had because they have to share everything. When we were trying to make sense of my mums death and the situation with James, Emmanuel and Khloe- the 3 children who had been abandoned at birth by their mothers but had been under my mums care until her sudden d