Foster Care: How Everyone Can Help
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Foster parents experience unique circumstances that come with unique emotions, and sometimes it can feel as though no one can relate to their life. Strength and encouragement come from viewing foster care through the lens of the Gospel. This is the message that Jason Johnson, author of Reframing Foster Care, brings. In this interview, he will share stories from his own foster parenting journey, such as the hard decisions and processes that he and his wife have had to go through, including the very real issues that come with relating to the birth parents of the children they are fostering. He will offer support to foster parents, as well as encouragement to those who are considering fostering. Also, he will give practical ways that we can all help, whether we feel called to be involved in foster care or not.
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| 0:33.1 | I would like this to have a family. |
| 0:36.6 | I call Mom and Dad, or this mom or this dad. |
| 0:42.3 | I don't really care. |
| 0:44.6 | Well, listen to the heart of that little nine-year-old boy. |
| 0:47.8 | His name is Jordan, and that's the cry of every person's heart. |
| 0:52.0 | To belong, have a family, a mom or a dad, preferably a mom and a dad. |
| 0:58.1 | Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, our guests will share ideas to help hurting children who are longing for a place to call home. |
| 1:05.9 | I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:06.7 | John, because of some good people, that little boy, Jordan, did get adopted into a family |
| 1:13.3 | out of foster care. |
| 1:15.1 | Tens of thousands of people responded after that news clip went viral, and that says a lot |
| 1:20.2 | about the heart of people. |
| 1:22.6 | But think of how many thousands of children are still waiting for their forever family, |
| 1:28.7 | and that's heartbreaking. |
| 1:33.9 | I can remember being that little boy and, you know, not having a mom and dad in my life, |
| 1:38.8 | hoping that maybe I could be adopted. I just didn't know. I had older brothers and sisters at the time. My football coach asked me if I wanted to live with them and offered to adopt me, but I thought it would hurt my brother too much who I was then living with. |
| 1:49.6 | You know, God has plans for every child, just like Jordan. |
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