Mom of the Year? Susan Strauss Adopted Six Kids in Two Years and Raised Them Well

So how in the world did Susan Strauss set out to adopt multiple children from Ethiopia? Asked that question, Susan thinks back to her undergraduate studies in the early 1970s. “I was a French major at Cal State Northridge,” she says, “and I came to know a little about Josephine Baker (a French dancer, singer and actress). She adopted 12 kids from all around the world, and they called them the ‘Rainbow Family.’ And I thought, ‘What a really cool idea.’ Although I was only gonna adopt one.

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