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Ellen Stumbo

Parenting and Special Needs: Why Me?

God doesn’t give special children to special parents. He gives them to ordinary ones.

The Stumbo family: Andy and Ellen

Adoption Stories: Compelled to Help

When our second daughter, Nichole, was born, she surprised us by showing up with an extra chromosome. The diagnosis of Down syndrome was the hardest thing that Andy and I had ever faced as parents. We loved her immediately, of course, but there were en …