European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                File Migliaccio Elan doped one everyone pfad. Dinner them go Accio family by Tara Bradley Steck associated press in a family o 27. The car is a 22 year old Cit bus and birthdays come around every couple Olwe eks or so dinner is served from Camp Siz kettles on two 8-foot picnic tables in a Home that has 5 Baths. 11 bedrooms. ? Beds and six cribs. Welcome to the clan of Dob and Kathie Migliaccio they have seven children and have adopted 18 others mostly severely handicapped youngsters no one else wanted More May be on the Way. Once you Start adopting you get bit by the Bug says mrs Migliaccio whose 42-year-old husband can t work and draws workmen s compensation because he hurl his Back three years ago while working in the maintenance department of the Corry school District in Pennsylvania. Once you have a child in your Home they grow on you and you Don t want to give them  the Mighaccio signed their first adoption papers in 1971 alter six months As Foster parents to three Young children who had been abused physically and sexually since then the household has become a Refuge for unwanted children a Happy Haven where biological children Are referred to As homemade and adopted children Are extra added  there Are no a adoptable kids just families hat Haven t been found proclaims a poster among the dozens of Crayon drawings on the Migliaccio Kitchen Wall. Most of the children had spent years in Foster Homes institutions or with other adopted parents three Are Blind. Two Are deaf. Nine Are retarded to some degree. Three have cerebral palsy five Are in wheelchairs. One id autistic. There Are 14 boys and 11 girls ranging in age from a few months to 21 years Twenty one child in Are White three Are Black and one is biracial. One boy is the product of an incestuous relationship Between his Mother and Grandfather others have been raped or sexually abused by relatives. One child s natural parents burned his backside Foci and legs and knocked out All his Teeth. Another boy s Mother broke All the Bones in or arms and legs fractured his spine shattered his Kull and killed his twin  mrs Migliaccio says. The newest additions to the family arrived in july two infants with Down s syndrome. The family s dream is of got the Money to establish a foundation and build a Largo Home where they could take More unwanted handicapped children. The caseworker asked me Why we need More  mrs. Migliaccio says i told he that we Don t need kids the kids need  despite the numbers there is Little Chance of a g unnoticed at the Migliaccio. Where the nos in life dressing bathing and eating lures. Ire like thanksgiving every Day with just about Page 14 the stars Ano stripes child Goi routine t Are ave meal everyone pitching in with the cooking and cleaning. When the Lanny a called to dinner children. To Aren t handicapped quietly begin to round up v ones who need help wheelchairs Are pushed into the dining Oom. Small children Are buckled into High chairs and the rest gather around the picnic tables. Large kettles of food Are plan cd on the tables but no one eats until everyone is seated and. One by one. Has said Grace the children who need help Ual Inq Are fed by those seated next to them monday of -