Американская пара усыновила 6 незрячих детей

All the family. See SWNS story NYBLIND; Meet the big-hearted couple who adopted six blind children from around the world - including a baby girl who was dumped in a trash can. Joe and Karen Bartling, both 60, dreamed of having a large family but struggled to conceive naturally after having their biological son Joel, 30. Following failed IVF they turned to adoption and heard about a baby that had been abandoned in South Korean orphanage through a customer at Karen’s doll store. Keen to help, they decided to adopt two-year-old Hannah, who was born with no eyes due to a developmental disorder. She moved to the US to be with them in 1997. Over the next decade, Karen and accounting firm director Joe - who met on a blind date - became the go-to couple for social workers trying to find homes for blind children. As well as 23-year-old Hannah, the Bartling brood consists of David, 18, Bethany, 18, Jesse, 17, Abi, 17, and Obed, 12 - all of whom are completely blind. Former flight attendant Karen, of Oakton, Virginia, said: “We decided to adopt and the first one just happened to be blind.