Everything You Need to Know About Foster Care & Adoption
The Kristan Hawkins Show
Savannah Slattery
3.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
When faced with an unexpected pregnancy, the pro-life movement encourages women and families to seek life-affirming resources that don’t include abortion. Some life-affirming resources for parents that are unable to raise their child include Safe Havens, foster care, and adoption. While reforms are needed to better the foster care and adoption systems, these programs are still helping families who want to have children become parents and – most importantly – giving the chance for preborn babies to experience life.
On today's episode, Kristan Hawkins sits down with Dr. Jacqueline Brown who is a clinical psychologist turned Christian fiction writer. As a psychologist, she specialized in working with women and girls who experienced trauma and entanglement with the criminal and juvenile justice systems. She is a wife and mother of three beautiful children. She is blessed to have been gifted her children through adoption and loves speaking about the beauty of adoption.
They discuss the most pressing questions about the foster care system, adoption, and how to improve both those pathways for children.
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| 0:00.0 | When faced an unexpected pregnancy, the pro-life movement encourages women and families to seek |
| 0:06.0 | life-affirming resources that don't include abortion. Some life-affirming resources for parents |
| 0:12.3 | that are unable to raise their child include safe havens, which we've been talking about, |
| 0:17.8 | foster care and adoption. While reforms are needed to better the foster care |
| 0:22.8 | adoption system, these programs are still giving and helping families who want to have children |
| 0:28.1 | become parents and most importantly, giving children the chance to experience an amazing life. |
| 0:35.7 | My guest today is Dr. Jacqueline Brown. She is a clinical psychologist |
| 0:39.9 | turned, get this, Christian fiction writer. You don't see that every day. As a psychologist, |
| 0:45.1 | she specialized in working with women and girls who experience trauma and entanglement with the |
| 0:51.0 | criminal and juvenile justice systems. In 2017, she decided to take a break from that career |
| 0:56.5 | and focus on writing. She's now published eight novels and a children's picture book. She is best |
| 1:02.1 | known for the Light series and the Awakening series. More importantly, she is a wife and a mother |
| 1:07.7 | of three beautiful children. She is blessed to have been gifted her children through adoption and love speaking about the beauty of adoption. Thanks for joining me |
| 1:15.8 | today on Explicitly Pro Life. I'm Kristen Hawkins. All right, Jacqueline, I'm so excited to have |
| 1:24.4 | you here with me virtually today in the studio with Explicitably Pro |
| 1:29.1 | Life because you and I recently had a conversation in Florida over breakfast. Thank you |
| 1:34.9 | very much for my breakfast. And I just keep, when we were talking about the adoption care system, |
| 1:42.0 | the foster care system, and your personal experiences as a |
| 1:45.3 | psychologist, then as an adoptive mother. I kept thinking myself, I wish everyone in America |
| 1:50.6 | could hear this conversation. So thanks for joining me. I am excited to be here. Thank you for having |
| 1:55.6 | me. You know, this is a topic that, you know, comes up a lot. There's not a college campus that I go to. I was at a college campus just yesterday. You know, there was a lovely welcome protest plans of me. It was amazing. I'm so popular. There was a condom pinata in my honor. It was lovely. |
| 2:18.4 | But every time I have conversations with pro-choice young people on campus, the trauma and the pain |
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