Please don’t take her! Please!” he cried. “I don’t want my little sister to be sent to an orphanage! Dad, please don’t let them take her!”

The father froze, not understanding what he was talking about. It took several minutes before everything became clear. The boy had accidentally overheard two nurses talking about another mother — a woman who had decided to give up her baby.

That newborn really was going to be sent to an orphanage, but it had nothing to do with their family.