Alisa (pictured at her home in Nashville) and husband Brian face the prospect of having their adopted son retired to foster care and being charged with child abandonment because they cannot get the care they need for his complex psychological problems. (John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
By the time the 9-year-old boy arrived in their foster home, he had been in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services for more than half his life, separated from four siblings and shunted through more than 20 foster homes.
Alisa and Brian said at first they had no intention of adopting the boy, who was around the same age as their biological son…