‘I Just Wanted to Call Him Dad’: Boy, 11, Shares Journey of Being Adopted by Stepfather

Courtesy of Derek Julian

For an 11-year-old boy from Cincinnati who was officially adopted by his stepdad into their forever family, that special day meant the world to him.

“I’d been waiting for it for a long time,” Connor Julian told The Epoch Times. “When the judge said I was officially adopted, I burst into tears because I was just so happy and relieved that it happened.”