Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey

In this episode of Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey "Amy" tells her story. She is a rare case of a biological parent with issues that she is willing to talk about. Her riveting story involves drug use, manufacturing, sales, death, and the effect it had on her children. Her openness, honesty, and vulnerability is an amazing opportunity to see foster care from the other side. Today she does the...

In this episode of Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey "Amy" tells her story. She is a rare case of a biological parent with issues that she is willing to talk about. Her riveting story involves drug use, manufacturing, sales, death, and the effect it had on her children. Her openness, honesty, and vulnerability is an amazing opportunity to see foster care from the other side.  Please leave us a...

Foster care began as a passion for us and has led us into adoption as well. This is the finale of Turtle's story. This story is as true and accurate as we could tell it from memory over the last 6 years. I hope you have enjoyed the story.  If you aren't on an iPhone, you can find us on Google Play - Spotify - Tune In - Overcast - or anywhere you get your podcasts. Just search "Jason and Amanda Pal...

Foster care began as a passion for us and has led us into adoption as well. This is the finale of Turtle's story. This story is as true and accurate as we could tell it from memory over the last 6 years. I hope you have enjoyed the story.  Stay tuned for Amy's story coming up next. Amy tells her story of addiction, jail, drugs, and losing her children to the foster care system for a while. Listen...

Foster Care is a wild ride. Listen to part 4 of Turtle's exciting and sometimes dangerous journey with us through his time as a foster kid!  Don't forget to subscribe to the channel so you don't miss out on the next step in his story!    

Foster care is a tricky business that takes you to places and experiences that you never expected. Whether you are looking at domestic adoption, foreign adoption or a kinship adoption there are certain to be surprises along the way. You will most likely be working with DFS, CPS, or some other form of the child welfare system.  If you are adopting a child, you want to adopt a baby, or becoming a fo...

Episode 2 of The Legacy of Standing With Turtle. In this episode, we talk about drugs, gang affiliation, and death. Turtle finally comes into care and we are relieved to finally have some authority figures step into his life and begin providing some structure to his young life. We struggle through figuring out how to navigate his life and our own family tragedies. Find us at: http://jasonmpalmer.c...

The foster care system brought us a little guy we called "G," this is the first of a 5 part series telling his story. We are talking drugs, prostitution, gangs and plenty of other twists in his origin story.  http://jasonmpalmer.com  

Jahnyia found herself in foster care at 2 years old. She and her brother were witnesses to their father's murder. Their mother was a heroin addict. After 2 years in foster care, we adopted them into our family. Today, we talked about life after foster care and how she navigates middle school as an adopted kid.

Amanda and I had the joy of fostering "Carl" in our home for almost a year. Here is one of our stories that was beautiful and hard at the same time!

Foster care and adoption are deep topics, so I decided to interview a subject expert: my 6-year-old son. He spent 2 years in foster care in our home, and has been adopted for the last 3 years. His answers can be poignantly simple, even when they are a little bit silly!

Jason and Amanda talk about the reasons why foster care became a part of their life.    Don't forget to subscribe!