Barry Farmer spent time in the foster care system while growing up and was no stranger to hardship. Having been raised by his grandmother since the age of 4, he credits her for the accomplished adult he turned out to be. And now he is a proud single father of three adopted children.
As a toddler, Barry had been placed in a form of foster care called “kinship care” in Richmond, Virginia. For years, he lived with different families, as his parents weren’t able to look after him. “I was going from home to home, living with friends of my parents. And that wasn’t stable,” he recalled, according to CBS News.
