Sean Anders never expected that an off-hand joke would change his life.
The writer and director (who’s responsible for comedies like “Hot Tub Time Machine” and “She’s Out Of My League”) and his wife, Beth, had been discussing the possibility of having kids when he joked that he might be too old to be a dad.
“Why don’t we just adopt a five year old? It’ll be like I got started five years ago,” Sean recalls saying. “I was totally kidding, but she took it seriously enough to get us moving down the road.”
The couple began doing research and quickly realized something important — while there were many kids looking for their forever families, older children had a much harder time being adopted out of the foster system. Suddenly, Anders’ joke about adopting a five-year-old started to become more real.
“Once we decided to move forward, it was scary and overwhelming, but we were very open to whatever came our way,” Beth says.
Adopting kids is a huge decision. So they decided that their best option was not to decide, or at least, not right off the bat.
