Rob Scheer entered the foster system at 12 years old after a childhood filled with abuse. Decades later, he works to educate people about the system and let them know what its really like to be a child simply looking for a home to call their own.

In his book A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time , Scheer tells readers about the abuse he endured at the hands of his biological parents as well as his stepfather, foster father and others. He also explains his journey through the foster system and his eventual homelessness after he was kicked out by his foster family weeks after his 18th birthday.

Scheer eventually worked his way up in the business world and later met his now husband, Reece. They are dads to four children: 14-year-old Amaya, 11-year-old Makai, 11-year-old Greyson and 9-year-old Tristan, two sets of siblings they fostered and later adopted to build their forever family.