A lovely young woman who is raising her brothers and sisters.
Samantha Rodriguez found herself in a tough spot after both of her parents passed away within a couple of years, leaving her responsible to raise her five younger siblings. As their primary caregiver, the young woman has had to make huge sacrifices to be able to continue to look after her brothers and sisters, the youngest of which is five, the oldest seventeen. The children were in danger of being placed in the foster care system where they would almost certainly have been separated.
“I knew what I had to do. I learned so much from my mom. I was like her sidekick. I learned what it meant to raise a family.It can be tough knowing when to be like a parent and when to be their sister. Sometimes it can feel like I’m alone.”
She moved with her siblings to Orange County, Florida, because their grandmother lived there. …
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