The Barnetts’ unusual story is the basis of the Hulu series “Good American Family,” which premiered in March. Aias Dalman and ...

IT’S a story so horrifying that it could have come straight from the pages of a Stephen King novel. When American couple Michael and Kristine Barnett adopted a six-year-old Ukrainian orphan in ...

Hulu's new limited drama series, Good American Family, debuted on March 19, 2025. Starring Ellen Pompeo as Kristine, the series is based on the Barnett family, who adopt Natalia Grace, a child with ...

In 2010, Indiana-based couple Michael and Kristine Barnett adopted Grace, a child from Ukraine with a rare form of dwarfism. While the adoption agency provided a Ukrainian birth certificate ...

Neither Michael nor Kristine Barnett served jail time despite being ... In 2013, Kristine published a memoir titled The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism, reflecting on ...

According to People Magazine, Kristine Barnett claimed this in one of her [now deleted ... In 2013, she published a memoir titled The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism, ...

Neither Michael nor Kristine Barnett served jail time ... In 2013, Kristine published a memoir about her son, The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism. In 2019, her address ...

Similarly to the Hulu series, the real-life Kristine wrote a book called The Spark, about her autistic son Jacob Barnett, who has an IQ of 170. Although sourcing her TV interviews is difficult ...

The memoir, The Spark, was so popular it was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in 2013 — but while it details Kristine Barnett’s miraculous job parenting her sons, it reportedly contains no ...

After what her adoptive mother, Kristine Barnett, called “sociopathic” behavior, the Barnetts legally changed their daughter’s birth year from 2003 to 1989 and abandoned her. This ...

In 2010, Grace was adopted by Kristine and Michael Barnett. The Barnetts later accused ... Kristine subsequently published a memoir in 2013 titled The Spark: A Mother’s Story of Nurturing ...

Starring Ellen Pompeo ("Grey's Anatomy"), the limited drama series depicts the saga of Kristine and Michael Barnett, accused of abandoning their adopted daughter who they claimed was an adult with ...