My heart breaks to think these wonderful children almost lost each other. Thank you Daddies for recognizing how special they are and knowing they were your children. Much love to all, from a secret grandma.
What a sweet, fantastic story. I discovered you guys in the middle of last night and didn't come up for air for 12 hours, watching videos one after the other. Those kids are the best! And you're the best parents, too!
I was moved to tears by this. I'm so happy Selena and Daniel have a real family now!! It's so nice to know there are loving people like you two in the world! I pray for blessings and prosperity in you family!!! Much love from Fiji!
You two make me cry. This story is beautiful, and you are the best parents Daniel and Selena could have. I can't get over how much you two love each other and compliment each other so perfectly, I just adore your whole family.
Wow, this is a fantastic story. I was crying myself when you guys were talking about Bryan and Daniel crying every time you guys had to leave him at the new foster home.
I have been a member to your site for over a year. Your honest comments about your children made me cry. I feel terribly about my comment a year ago about not promoting your family. I congratulate you for taking on these children. I am adopted. I have an identical twin brother. I am gay with a loving partner with three adult female daughters. God love you two and your beautiful children!
Guys....I am so glad that you both got Daniel and that you relayed your story. I'm a big softy myself and I almost cried too. Thanks for sharing your experience! I always thought I'd adopt whether I was gay or not becuse kids need parents! Thank you for sharing this story!
LOL. I am glad you did the videos ad-lib. It is adorable to see you have your little moments, and see how well you handle discussions and quibbles as to details.
Just watched the latest video. This adoption story is worthy of Disney, it really touches the heart. I'm trilled that this all worked out so well, I really truly am. Your family is an inspiration to the world!! Your Irish pal, Paul.
I dont feel weird or young or insane for wanting my family, it feels more realistic and that is a great feeling! Thank you for the christmas invite! Love, Dakota
I agree with BearGuyPaul's comment that this story is worthy of Disney. Thank you for presenting parts of what happened with you guys ranging from the emotional turmoil to the educational facts about how the adoption process works. It was wonderful to get an insight into your family's history--the kids and you're on, and it shed light on subject manner that I think most of us are completely unfamiliar about. Great video and fantastic series guys!
Great vid, as usual. Bryan's honesty about his initial wariness towards Daniel is much appreciated. There's so much love and honesty exuding--or perhaps spewing ;-) --from you two. That's why I watch!
Just watched a series of your videos and I'm so Proud of you guys. Becoming parents is a hard job. And I'm glad your family is doing well. Wish you all the best in life.
This video never made it to my sub box! Darn gootube! I had tears streaming when you talked about having to leave Daniel behind. But, all's well now and that's what matters. You two men are my heroes!
This was so interesting. The private route is so different. We don't look at profiles but birth mothers review our glossy birth letter, so they have the control it seems. We are willing to wait awhile (1 + yr) to get matched, but hearing your foster experience just made my heart melt. Not sure I could handle what u went through not being able to bring Daniel home.
None of your videos have ever been boring. They have been entertaining and educational. The bound the kids have with the 2 of you shows in your videos. You can tell that Daneial is Daddy Bryans boy and Selna is Daddy's Jays little girl. Keep the videos coming Leffew family. Take Care, Thom from Ohio
Hey Jay And Bryan I just saw your part 3 of your story. I want to say all of you video have inspiration me. But this one deeply brought tear to my eyes and it touch my heart in way I will never for get. You and your family do great work!! Your family and the work you do will always be in my heart.
the love you guys have for one another and your kids is obvious and more than many other straight couples i know. thank you for sharing everything you do and educating us like you are.
Hey guys, thank you so much for making these videos. My husband and I love your videos and your family has been a huge inspiration for me over the years and now for my husband and I. While my husband and I are not ready to adopt children, we always knew we wanted to have children. Do you have any advice for a couple who hope to start the adopting process in the distant future? Our biggest concern is being financially able to adopt. Marcus works in retail and I in hospitality. We are always striving to improve our lives and I often work 2 jobs. We hope one day that we will be able to give children a loving home that they deserve. Thank you.
A very engaging and emotive video. I'm sorry that i keep coming back to this issue, but when i'm watching your adoption videos i can't help but thinking of my friends who are or would be pregnant and comparing your motives to theirs.
as i've been messageing you with, ive watched these videos countless times.... i have to say that i am in a desperate frenzy recently. everything i think about, is children. it relates back to children. i dont see a shopping cart as a shopping cart, i see a kid, my kid, in the shopping cart. i dont see lasgna, i see a mess all over my kids clothes, it's like seeing everything through parent goggles.
I'm not surprised you cried when you had to leave him behind. I was in tears just listening to it. It must have been awful. It's not surprising that some of the kids act up a bit when you think of the stress of these situations.
I can't say much more than thanks again. These videos are such a valuable resource. It is interesting to see how similar the process works in different countries. The bureaucratic processes are different but the people all seem familiar :D
One friend once told me she wanted to have a child, because pregnancy reduces the chances of a woman's getting ovular cancer, or something. Another, expecting friend, who has never showed any affinity to kids before, has told me she wished to see how she would look in miniature, and that she's doing it basically because she can, and don't want to regret it later. I love you guys. In a way, i'm almost envious of Daniel and Selena in how it's turned out for them.
i know im young, but i cry in the night for children. true i probably have a stronger connection having been adopted myself and having my family recently disown me, i feel the need to "nest" and create my own family with chris. anyways, this severity of crying and goggles has been going on for about five months, although it's been a year since children have been my main focus... and your videos make me feel... validated.
Not too sure why i'm re-watching these, but i got through to the bit where you said about the notes on daniel and all the video's since the making of this video even, came to me. Like how in the past few years he's had his letter, which went viral and got him onto radio and tv, seeing his school report cards, christmas morning video's etc.... How wrong those notes were in the end.
i know what your talking about with how the kids felt. my parents divorced when i was 8 and i had a custody battle that took 4 years to complete. i still have to deal with things that i didnt really think about at the time.
@depfox I think you talk the perfect amount -_- although sometimes you do get very passionate and cut short bryan in the middle of the sentence... now i'll go share the video on fb...it really is disney material.
Great video, as usual! I've been wondering (and you brought it up in this video) how you maintain the kids' conection to the Latino community, or teach them about their heritage. I don't know if that will also involve teaching Selina about her Filipino heritage as well.. Love your vids!
Normal doesn't mean it's right. Domestic violence and sexual abuse were considered "normal" just the way things were for centuries, and that didn't make them right. It's time for the world to evolve from normal to right.
You guys are Amazing hopeless to one day meet the one guy and have a lovely Family like yours. ♡♥ Keep doing you Cuz that's what makes you happy. Hope one day I get to meet your family. Love Pedro Munoz. ∞
It was meant to be.. Jay and Bryan are blessed and Daniel and Selena are blessed. The whole "foster care" system in this country is frightening. I work in a hospital and I have seen some foster parents bring kids in for treatment and the kids are unkept and socially retarded. You just know that these people could care less about the kids..they are just interested in the check that they are receiving from the government..and I am sure they are not spending that money on the kids. Sad.. G.vid!
So do we just leave unwanted children to rot in fostercare ?? you might want to research the Correlation between fostercare and ppl that end up in prison
It is better for children to go to a loving home that has two dads or two moms instead of aging out of the system without ever having a family. I watched the video and I saw nothing in it that said anything about trying to replace a mothers love. Sadly the mother wasn't in the right state to give the love that the children needed or they wouldn't have been taken and put into the system in the first place.
@TheHannahkhan Leave the "poor" kids out of a loving, nurturing, supportive environment where a brother and sister get to stay together, and grow up feeling loved and secure? Where they learn about tolerance, love, understanding, acceptance, respect and open mindedness? Why? So they can grow up with parents like yourself and be taught hate, intolerance, prejudice, fear and cruelty towards others because they are different than them? No thanks, that would be the worst thing for ANY child!!!
And besides, do you really think that adoption agencies don't try to fit every child with a straight couple? They do! Straight couples get a HUGE advantage in comparison to gay couples, and because of this, generally have much less trouble finding a suitable kid. But there simply aren't enough people trying to adopt. It's not like Depfox stole these children away from another, straight couple that was in line, trying to adopt them. They were the only family who WOULD adopt daniel and selena.
The whole, "I'm a bif softie" and "I had to do this and that and that and this" yada yada yada. Don't take it personality, but i did kinda got this praising myself vibe a little from this vid. love you all, cheers!
Yes say it, heterofolks. They adopt kids just for a replacement when they are infertile, some are so entirely heartless and inconsiderate they journey outside the country and take the babies from there so they won't have to deal with the parents who may want to get in contact with their lost kids. Read it, it's terrible! There's a documentary out about a Ethiopian who was adopted by a Danish couple, and the girl cried every day for her mother. so what did the couple do? dump her in an orphanage!
So a single person should never adopt? Adoption is different than having a child yourself. Sure, a gay couple can't have a child together, but adoption is about taking a child in and giving them love, support, and a home. You don't have to be straight to do that. You obviously haven't seen all of their videos: the children THEMSELVES show it's a loving home. I hate people like you who in all likelihood have never seriously talked to a gay couple, who still think they have the right to judge us!
superstubes I know this is gay adoption which is frowned upon in the far east. I am wondering how the child will grow up without a female figure. [mother]
superstubes Just wondering, a child needs a complete family of both the male and female figure. That's how the natural structure of family is intended to be by God.
some of these children will never have a mother or a father! so what are they to do? get lost in the system? when there's to people who are offering there love to these children and only want the best!
first of all you need to learn how to spell, second it really doesn't matter because you are all going to burn in hell anyway you sick freak, oh and by the way you just demonstrated that you have no right to raise a child by cussing
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Daniel and Selena are so fortunate to have two such caring and loving people to be their parents . Kudos.
My heart breaks to think these wonderful children almost lost each other. Thank you Daddies for recognizing how special they are and knowing they were your children. Much love to all, from a secret grandma.
What a sweet, fantastic story. I discovered you guys in the middle of last night and didn't come up for air for 12 hours, watching videos one after the other. Those kids are the best! And you're the best parents, too!
Sorry get some sleep :O) Hugs
I was moved to tears by this. I'm so happy Selena and Daniel have a real family now!! It's so nice to know there are loving people like you two in the world! I pray for blessings and prosperity in you family!!! Much love from Fiji!
You two make me cry. This story is beautiful, and you are the best parents Daniel and Selena could have. I can't get over how much you two love each other and compliment each other so perfectly, I just adore your whole family.
Wow, this is a fantastic story. I was crying myself when you guys were talking about Bryan and Daniel crying every time you guys had to leave him at the new foster home.
I have been a member to your site for over a year. Your honest comments about your children made me cry. I feel terribly about my comment a year ago about not promoting your family. I congratulate you for taking on these children. I am adopted. I have an identical twin brother. I am gay with a loving partner with three adult female daughters. God love you two and your beautiful children!
Guys....I am so glad that you both got Daniel and that you relayed your story. I'm a big softy myself and I almost cried too. Thanks for sharing your experience! I always thought I'd adopt whether I was gay or not becuse kids need parents! Thank you for sharing this story!
LOL. I am glad you did the videos ad-lib. It is adorable to see you have your little moments, and see how well you handle discussions and quibbles as to details.
Just watched the latest video. This adoption story is worthy of Disney, it really touches the heart. I'm trilled that this all worked out so well, I really truly am. Your family is an inspiration to the world!!
Your Irish pal,
Paul.
I dont feel weird or young or insane for wanting my family, it feels more realistic and that is a great feeling!
Thank you for the christmas invite!
Love,
Dakota
My heart broke listening to all Daniel went through. How could that couple be so cruel as to want to separate them?
All three parts are fantastic videos to watch. Every second of the videos are really inspiring.
I agree with BearGuyPaul's comment that this story is worthy of Disney. Thank you for presenting parts of what happened with you guys ranging from the emotional turmoil to the educational facts about how the adoption process works. It was wonderful to get an insight into your family's history--the kids and you're on, and it shed light on subject manner that I think most of us are completely unfamiliar about. Great video and fantastic series guys!
I have probably watched this about 20 times, and it moves me each time
Great vid, as usual. Bryan's honesty about his initial wariness towards Daniel is much appreciated. There's so much love and honesty exuding--or perhaps spewing ;-) --from you two. That's why I watch!
Just watched a series of your videos and I'm so Proud of you guys. Becoming parents is a hard job. And I'm glad your family is doing well. Wish you all the best in life.
This video never made it to my sub box! Darn gootube!
I had tears streaming when you talked about having to leave Daniel behind. But, all's well now and that's what matters.
You two men are my heroes!
This was so interesting. The private route is so different. We don't look at profiles but birth mothers review our glossy birth letter, so they have the control it seems. We are willing to wait awhile (1 + yr) to get matched, but hearing your foster experience just made my heart melt. Not sure I could handle what u went through not being able to bring Daniel home.
My husband and I are about to begin this process. Omg this is overwhelming
I think we can definitely say that God was looking out for all of you, to work out all of you getting together at the right times!
That was so amazing, the video made me cry too. Your kids are so lucky to have you.
You guys are simply AMAZING. Really enjoyed this series.
None of your videos have ever been boring. They have been entertaining and educational. The bound the kids have with the 2 of you shows in your videos. You can tell that Daneial is Daddy Bryans boy and Selna is Daddy's Jays little girl. Keep the videos coming Leffew family. Take Care, Thom from Ohio
You two are such heros! I cried the whole way this video.
Hey Jay And Bryan
I just saw your part 3 of your story. I want to say all of you video have inspiration me. But this one deeply brought tear to my eyes and it touch my heart in way I will never for get. You and your family do great work!! Your family and the work you do will always be in my heart.
I thought Selena and Daniel looked more than alike for just adopted siblings. That makes sense now.
Great video! Thank you, Jay and Bryan, for sharing your story. Loved the goofy little kiss at the end too! =P
the love you guys have for one another and your kids is obvious and more than many other straight couples i know. thank you for sharing everything you do and educating us like you are.
Thank you for sharing your story with us guys! :-D!!!
Happy holidays!. Felices fiestas!
Hey guys, thank you so much for making these videos. My husband and I love your videos and your family has been a huge inspiration for me over the years and now for my husband and I. While my husband and I are not ready to adopt children, we always knew we wanted to have children. Do you have any advice for a couple who hope to start the adopting process in the distant future? Our biggest concern is being financially able to adopt. Marcus works in retail and I in hospitality. We are always striving to improve our lives and I often work 2 jobs. We hope one day that we will be able to give children a loving home that they deserve. Thank you.
I'm addicted to this channel I watch thus every day
A very engaging and emotive video.
I'm sorry that i keep coming back to this issue, but when i'm watching your adoption videos i can't help but thinking of my friends who are or would be pregnant and comparing your motives to theirs.
Great Video! You two are so incredible and I am so happy for you!
I am so proud that you don't care what anyone thinks about you being a gay family
I really like your vids❤️
as i've been messageing you with, ive watched these videos countless times....
i have to say that i am in a desperate frenzy recently. everything i think about, is children. it relates back to children. i dont see a shopping cart as a shopping cart, i see a kid, my kid, in the shopping cart. i dont see lasgna, i see a mess all over my kids clothes, it's like seeing everything through parent goggles.
I'm not surprised you cried when you had to leave him behind. I was in tears just listening to it. It must have been awful.
It's not surprising that some of the kids act up a bit when you think of the stress of these situations.
I can't say much more than thanks again. These videos are such a valuable resource.
It is interesting to see how similar the process works in different countries. The bureaucratic processes are different but the people all seem familiar :D
You guys can't be sweeter than you are now. Greetings from Buenos Aires!
Im a new subscriber and have watched all 4 parts to this....you guys are amazing and this really touched me....beautiful family.
again...you GUYS ARE SAINTS!!!!! My hat is off to you both.
You guys are blessed Leffew family!!!!
WOOT WOOT!!!!
Why am I weeping all the way through this?
Oh, yeah, I know why -- because it -- and you are so beautiful.
One friend once told me she wanted to have a child, because pregnancy reduces the chances of a woman's getting ovular cancer, or something. Another, expecting friend, who has never showed any affinity to kids before, has told me she wished to see how she would look in miniature, and that she's doing it basically because she can, and don't want to regret it later.
I love you guys. In a way, i'm almost envious of Daniel and Selena in how it's turned out for them.
i know im young, but i cry in the night for children. true i probably have a stronger connection having been adopted myself and having my family recently disown me, i feel the need to "nest" and create my own family with chris. anyways, this severity of crying and goggles has been going on for about five months, although it's been a year since children have been my main focus... and your videos make me feel... validated.
wou you are awesome ,you both have a gold heart ,thank you a lot
Not too sure why i'm re-watching these, but i got through to the bit where you said about the notes on daniel and all the video's since the making of this video even, came to me. Like how in the past few years he's had his letter, which went viral and got him onto radio and tv, seeing his school report cards, christmas morning video's etc.... How wrong those notes were in the end.
One of the best vids i've seen ! i laughed, i cried, i learned, i lived, i kissed bryan - oh was that out loud?!
I am inspired by you gentlemen. Love conquers all
Mind blowing really love you both. Great fathers,god bless you both and kids
i know what your talking about with how the kids felt. my parents divorced when i was 8 and i had a custody battle that took 4 years to complete. i still have to deal with things that i didnt really think about at the time.
its great!
what you are doing!
setting examples, showing people how possible it really is!
thank you.
bless the both of you for doing what you do
I didn't hear anyone talking about a sex-change.
So, both children are blessed with two amazing daddies!
I hope one day I have a family too.
@depfox
I think you talk the perfect amount -_- although sometimes you do get very passionate and cut short bryan in the middle of the sentence...
now i'll go share the video on fb...it really is disney material.
Great video, as usual!
I've been wondering (and you brought it up in this video) how you maintain the kids' conection to the Latino community, or teach them about their heritage. I don't know if that will also involve teaching Selina about her Filipino heritage as well..
Love your vids!
God bless you guys. You are an inspiration
My partner and I so badly want to adopt. We have had 2 failed adoptions so far. It seems like we are waiting forever and forever.
Hey guys, love your new video.
best video on youtube.
good for u guys, I am so happy for you xxxx
were you able to change their last names to yours????
... Ok i´m will try to get mi video question by the end of the weekend. so wait for me!!
you talking about leaving Daniel because you were waiting on the father got me a little bit :(
i love you guys!
Normal doesn't mean it's right. Domestic violence and sexual abuse were considered "normal" just the way things were for centuries, and that didn't make them right. It's time for the world to evolve from normal to right.
You guys are Amazing hopeless to one day meet the one guy and have a lovely Family like yours. ♡♥ Keep doing you Cuz that's what makes you happy. Hope one day I get to meet your family.
Love Pedro Munoz. ∞
It was meant to be.. Jay and Bryan are blessed and Daniel and Selena are blessed.
The whole "foster care" system in this country is frightening. I work in a hospital and I have seen some foster parents bring kids in for treatment and the kids are unkept and socially retarded. You just know that these people could care less about the kids..they are just interested in the check that they are receiving from the government..and I am sure they are not spending that money on the kids. Sad..
G.vid!
Amazing people
what a sweet vid... :)
13:29 my favorite moment....
So do we just leave unwanted children to rot in fostercare ??
you might want to research the Correlation between fostercare and ppl that end up in prison
I'm sorry, but i didn't get it plz re-explain
It is better for children to go to a loving home that has two dads or two moms instead of aging out of the system without ever having a family. I watched the video and I saw nothing in it that said anything about trying to replace a mothers love. Sadly the mother wasn't in the right state to give the love that the children needed or they wouldn't have been taken and put into the system in the first place.
Heads up: the link to your friend's adoption box story isn't working.
@TheHannahkhan Leave the "poor" kids out of a loving, nurturing, supportive environment where a brother and sister get to stay together, and grow up feeling loved and secure? Where they learn about tolerance, love, understanding, acceptance, respect and open mindedness? Why? So they can grow up with parents like yourself and be taught hate, intolerance, prejudice, fear and cruelty towards others because they are different than them? No thanks, that would be the worst thing for ANY child!!!
And besides, do you really think that adoption agencies don't try to fit every child with a straight couple? They do! Straight couples get a HUGE advantage in comparison to gay couples, and because of this, generally have much less trouble finding a suitable kid. But there simply aren't enough people trying to adopt. It's not like Depfox stole these children away from another, straight couple that was in line, trying to adopt them. They were the only family who WOULD adopt daniel and selena.
The whole, "I'm a bif softie" and "I had to do this and that and that and this" yada yada yada. Don't take it personality, but i did kinda got this praising myself vibe a little from this vid.
love you all, cheers!
I'm adopting my daughter from Italy, age:5 :)
let Bryan talk more :)
what more love for a kid o you really need?!
I want kids now :) I
Yes say it, heterofolks. They adopt kids just for a replacement when they are infertile, some are so entirely heartless and inconsiderate they journey outside the country and take the babies from there so they won't have to deal with the parents who may want to get in contact with their lost kids. Read it, it's terrible! There's a documentary out about a Ethiopian who was adopted by a Danish couple, and the girl cried every day for her mother. so what did the couple do? dump her in an orphanage!
you guys are so cute when you disagree.
So a single person should never adopt? Adoption is different than having a child yourself. Sure, a gay couple can't have a child together, but adoption is about taking a child in and giving them love, support, and a home. You don't have to be straight to do that. You obviously haven't seen all of their videos: the children THEMSELVES show it's a loving home. I hate people like you who in all likelihood have never seriously talked to a gay couple, who still think they have the right to judge us!
@abbynady Learn something, will ya?
Nice couple.
Daddy and papa? Then the child no mummy, how?
Bro Buddy The clue in the title. Gay Adoption.
superstubes I know this is gay adoption which is frowned upon in the far east. I am wondering how the child will grow up without a female figure. [mother]
Bro Buddy Elton John and his partner have I think 2 kids or 1 . No Mother.
Michael Jackson had 3 kids in the same way.
superstubes Just wondering, a child needs a complete family of both the male and female figure. That's how the natural structure of family is intended to be by God.
You do realize there are plenty of homosexual men who team up with homosexual women and make families where the kids have two moms and dads right?
Margot Noha no one was talking to you so keep your self out of the conversation all right. You will be the first person that will go to hell.
some of these children will never have a mother or a father! so what are they to do? get lost in the system? when there's to people who are offering there love to these children and only want the best!
Man when people quote the bible like that smh sounds so evil but god is not evil...
oohhs i stole the spotlight, first comment !!!! lol
Theses men are not gay! You
can tell by their wacky clothes.
lol this is so messed up. More like a foster family with sodemy pleasures, than a true family.
Ugh... No offense Jay but try not to brag about yourself.
Shay jones if you have nothing nice to say dont say nothing. You should keep your fucking mouth close for reallys.
first of all you need to learn how to spell, second it really doesn't matter because you are all going to burn in hell anyway you sick freak, oh and by the way you just demonstrated that you have no right to raise a child by cussing
Homosexuals are cool!
You do know that it was a mother and father that brought him into the world right??? SHUT UP!!!!!