Background
Patty Anglin was born in 1954, United States.
Anglin's foster children
Trip to Kparblee, Nimba County
Patty Anglin was born in 1954, United States.
Patty Anglin was a medical lab technician and a member of adoption agency boards, as well as a Wisconsin consultant for Adopt America Network. With the assistance of coauthor Joe Musser, Anglin wrote about the challenges and rewards of the life of service that she has chosen in ''Acres of Hope: The Miraculous Story of One Family’s Gift of Love to Children without Hope'' that was written in 1999.
After her marriage to Harold Anglin, Patty began a long career as a foster care mother to medically fragile children as well as providing services in parenting skills to their families. While providing care Patty began to see ways of improving the foster care system. She began to work with other agencies and groups, local, state and national in developing new and innovative ways to assist children and families in receiving appropriate services. Nowadays Anglin is Owner of Acres of Hope, Inc. USA, Europe, & Africa.
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Publishers Weekly reviewer termed it “Anglin emerges as a woman of deep faith firmly committed to the individual nurturance of children".
Patty Anglin is married to Harold Anglin. In addition to their seven biological children, they have adopted eight children and served as foster parents to over fifty more. Among the children they have adopted are Ari, an abandoned Indian girl who was born with a disease that left her a quadriplegic; Zachary, who was born with only stumps for arms and legs and who was nearly killed by his Nigerian parents who viewed his birth defect as a bad omen; Tirzah and Tyler, siblings who were beaten in foster care to the point where Tyler suffered partial hearing loss and Tirzah had every linger in both hands broken, leaving her with arthritis; and Serina, who was born with an infection that killed seventy-five percent of her brain cells.