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Meet Foster Care Alumnus Oscar from Connecticut

Oscar was placed in foster care as a result of parental neglect in 1993, causing him to be separated from his three siblings. Through his early childhood, he had four placements in foster care and had several attempts at reunification with his birth mother.

When his fourth foster mother moved out of state, Oscar, age 7, was placed with Jorge and Virgen Roman. The couple had three adult biological children, Maria, Virgen, and Jesus. The Romans were attuned to Oscar’s emotional needs and realized that he was struggling with issues of abandonment, rejection, and loss from his many moves. 

After three years, the Romans adopted Oscar in 1997, allowing him to exit foster care with a lifelong connection to a family.

Currently, Oscar is a college student, majoring in business management and management information systems. Oscar also has expressed interest in finding his birth parents and siblings, which is a process he recently began with his former Casey social worker.