Create Your Forever Family: The Joys of Adoption and Foster Care

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Foster care and adoption can be wonderfully redemptive for needy children, but parents also need to be aware of the loss and trauma these kids have experienced. Of course, not everyone is called to be foster or adoptive parent, but anyone can come alongside these families to encourage and support them. Ryan and Kayla North describe the joys and challenges of foster parenting and adoption.

A suitcase bundle is a constant and caring reminder for children in foster care they are very loved and a valuable child of God.

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0:00.0	God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising today and find out how you can become an agent of restoration and hope.
0:24.1	Visit truthrising.com today.
0:26.9	That's truthrising.com.
0:31.2	One of the biggest myths in our society and also prevalent in the church is that like I can go it alone.
0:38.6	You know, I'm going to be dependent on God, but I don't want to be interdependent on my neighbors,
0:42.7	on my family, on my community at large.
0:44.9	And I think that foster care and adoption really invites you to leave that myth behind.
0:50.9	It can be really challenging because we want to, we all want to be the ones that are the
0:54.6	givers and not the ones that are in need of help, right? And that comment comes from a woman who
0:59.6	knows all too well how much help she needed as a foster and adoptive mom. Today on Focus on the
1:05.7	Family with Jim Daly, we're going to be exploring foster care and adoption. I'm John Fuller,
1:10.4	and we're so glad you joined us today.
1:12.5	You know, John, whenever we bring up this topic, people start to back up because you know what?
1:17.9	It pressures you to think about what you're doing. And I want to challenge folks. Gene, my wife, challenged me.
1:25.4	I remember when I was here talking about doing foster care and getting people engaged with the foster area, you don't have to do foster care, but you can wrap around a family.
1:36.0	It's called respite care and do something to help that family.
1:39.9	I remember I got home and Gene said to me, you know, if you're going to ask people to do it,
1:44.4	we should probably do it. And I said, and I said, no, I said, I already did. I was the foster
1:50.2	kid. Yeah, I paid my dues. And she said, yeah, that's not going to cut it. Isn't that awesome?
1:55.8	So, I mean, we got licensed. We had lots of foster kids come through our home and we're still
2:00.5	connected to some of them
2:01.7	and engaged as kind of grandparents now, and it's been great. But let me just challenge you to think
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