Episode 17: You're Never Too Old to Foster
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Mary Slager will challenge your thinking about getting involved in foster care. You’re never too old to get involved somehow…and it may be that you’re called to foster children even after your own children are grown and gone. Listening to Mary’s experiences erases some of the age constraints you might be feeling!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Forgotten podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community. |
| 0:30.6 | The more you give and you see yourself helping people, that it just brings life to you. You know, otherwise you just kind of like focused on yourself and this problem and that problem. And this way, we're giving out of our |
| 0:42.3 | abundance, you know? |
| 0:57.4 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:59.4 | Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast. |
| 1:05.0 | You can find out more about today's episode by visiting the forgotten initiative.org slash S2E4 for season two, episode four. |
| 1:10.6 | Well, I loved talking with my guest today, Mary Slager. |
| 1:14.0 | Mary and her husband Stan live in Kausaki, New York. And I'm actually not sure that I'm saying |
| 1:19.0 | that right, but we're going to go with that. They have been married for 51 years. |
| 1:23.9 | Approximately 30 of those years, 30 of those years, they've been fostering or adapting. |
| 1:29.5 | And currently they are fostering a 14-year-old and just completed their most recent adoption |
| 1:34.4 | just a few months ago in October. Did you hear that? They've been married 51 years and are still |
| 1:41.1 | fostering and still adopting. Oh my goodness, you are in for a treat, my friends. |
| 1:47.4 | I could just sit and soak in Mary's wisdom for a very long time. |
| 1:51.4 | And if you've ever thought, oh, I could never foster, |
| 1:54.2 | I'd get too attached, or I'm too old, |
| 1:56.7 | or it would negatively affect my children, |
| 1:59.2 | or, you know, you fill in the blank. |
| 2:01.1 | This is a no excuse episode. |
| 2:03.8 | Let's go to that right now. |
| 2:12.1 | Well, Mary, I have really been looking forward to talking with you. |
| 2:16.1 | We got to know each other just a little bit when you actually interviewed me. |
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