Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, we'll explore some of the unusual challenges facing parents in foster care.

And I said to him, I'm going to go out, I'm going to go meet with these people who he knew.

And I'll be back at nine.

And he just lost it.

He was, he was, he was, he would definitely melt down meltdown and he asked me what day and I didn't know what he meant

He what he meant was what day at nine o'clock was I was coming back because he had been abandoned you know for days on

end as a child and I I didn't foresee that happening that night in particular his bedroom window was near where I

backed my car in and he peaked out the window and I was home on time I was very

thankful for that because he was waiting. That's Julie

Bagramming her experience as a foster care mom and since May is National

Foster Care Month here in the US we've invited this 12-year veteran to share

more of her stories and insights with us. Thanks for joining us. I'm John

Fuller and your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly.

John this is one of those topics that

usually isn't top of mind unless you've been a foster child

like I was or you foster children,

which Jean and I later did.

I remember coming home and saying to Jean,

actually she said to me,

you know, if you're gonna ask other couples

to do foster care, we should do it.

And I was like, no, no, I was a foster kid I already paid my my dues and

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