Randi Richardson is a reporter for NBC News' TODAY.com based in Brooklyn.
Emma Patterson and her husband split in the ‘80s, leaving her with the only career she knew: caring for kids. “I had been married quite a long time, and I was sort of trying to find my way because I didn’t really have a career,” she tells TODAY.com in an interview. “I’d been a housewife ... and I just started taking care of kids,” she adds. The 88-year-old has fostered more than 40 children in Montgomery County, Maryland, over the last four decades.
” Patterson has two biological children and says helping their friends in need led to her becoming a foster parent. “For whatever reason, my children always thought that I could fix the problem,” she says. “It really started with some of my children’s friends not really being taken care of. My children would bring them home and I would just try to give them something to eat and let them have a place to stay. I would just do the best I could to help them a little bit.
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