Episode 30: How Foster Care Became a Passion to Help Others
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Jim Daly, President of Focus on the Family, shares his personal journey of being a child in foster care and explains how going through that painful time created a passion in him to work on behalf of children in foster care and how, even as an adult, he still feels the effects of foster care in his life.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Forgotten podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community. |
| 0:07.0 | He took us into a bedroom one at a time and told us that she had died. |
| 0:27.6 | Wow, that was so hard. |
| 0:29.6 | Because she was my world. |
| 0:31.6 | She was what made it for me at that time. |
| 0:44.5 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:46.3 | Welcome back to The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:52.2 | You can find out more about today's episode by visiting the forgotten initiative.org slash s3E5 for season three, episode five. |
| 0:57.9 | It was an incredible honor to interview my guest today. |
| 1:01.9 | Jim Daly is the president of Focus on the Family and host of the daily broadcast. |
| 1:07.5 | The ministry of focus has impacted our family immensely over the years, and so to have an opportunity to speak with Jim was just a huge privilege. |
| 1:16.9 | Today's conversation is powerful and it's emotional, as Jim shares openly about his personal journey into foster care and how the trauma of his childhood has impacted his life even as an adult. |
| 1:30.9 | Daly has been married to his wife, Jean, since 1986. |
| 1:35.1 | And together they have two sons, and they've been foster parents to many. |
| 1:39.1 | They live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 1:42.3 | Let's go now to my interview with Jim Daily. |
| 1:48.7 | Well, hey, Jim, I am so honored to have you on the show today. Our family has been deeply |
| 1:54.7 | impacted by the work of Focus on the Family, both through Adventures in Odyssey, all the way |
| 1:59.7 | from when I was a child and to the broadcast, |
| 2:02.9 | the daily focus on the family radio broadcast. In fact, during an especially difficult time in |
| 2:08.7 | my life, when we were trying to adopt a baby from the United States, I remember hearing |
| 2:13.8 | you share about the Wait No More conference. And it was really the first time in really one of |
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