With us today is Dr. John DeGarmo, leading expert in foster care and parenting, and director of The Foster Care Institute.
Dr. DeGarmo conducts seminars across the world on foster care, child sex trafficking, adoption, and child welfare related issues.
He also is author of several books, including The Foster Care Survival Guide, Keeping Foster Children Safe Online, and Fostering Love: One Foster Parent's Journey.
As a parent -- eirther biological, adoptive, foster he has had over 60 children come live with him and his family, and currently has 10 kids in his house.
Good Lord!
This is an interesting guy, too. He’s worked in professional wrestling, traveled the world performing in the international super group Up With People, married an Australian, lived on a tropical island on the Great Barrier Reef for a year, was awarded the Good Morning America Ultimate Hero Award, and even appeared on Wife Swap. What was that all about!
Here are some questions we posed to Dr. DeGarmo:
Q. Why do you do what you do? And where do you find the time?
Q. Tell us about The Foster Care Institute and what you do there.
Q. I’m certain that dealing with children who have been abused is one of the major aspects of your work there. How serious of a problem is domestic violence and child abuse today?
Q. Let’s talk about that what are some ways that we can all help stop domestic violence against children?
Q. What about foster care? Is there a shortage of foster parents for kids in crisis?
Q. What are some things that people interested in becoming a foster parent should consider?
Q. You wrote a blog earlier this year listing 15 ways to fix foster care. What are they?
Q. You are someone who walks the talk, if ever I’ve seen an example of that. You work on behalf of children who need foster care, and you’ve parented more than 60 yourself? And you and your wife are caring for 10 kids now? Why? How?
Q. How can you possibly provide the individual attention that these children deserve?
Q. The Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell saga was shocking and disgusting. What were your thoughts with how that case played out? Epstein being found dead in his jail cell and Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking in support of Epstein’s sex enterprise.
Dr. DeGarmo conducts seminars across the world on foster care, child sex trafficking, adoption, and child welfare related issues.
He also is author of several books, including The Foster Care Survival Guide, Keeping Foster Children Safe Online, and Fostering Love: One Foster Parent's Journey.
As a parent -- eirther biological, adoptive, foster he has had over 60 children come live with him and his family, and currently has 10 kids in his house.
Good Lord!
This is an interesting guy, too. He’s worked in professional wrestling, traveled the world performing in the international super group Up With People, married an Australian, lived on a tropical island on the Great Barrier Reef for a year, was awarded the Good Morning America Ultimate Hero Award, and even appeared on Wife Swap. What was that all about!
Here are some questions we posed to Dr. DeGarmo:
Q. Why do you do what you do? And where do you find the time?
Q. Tell us about The Foster Care Institute and what you do there.
Q. I’m certain that dealing with children who have been abused is one of the major aspects of your work there. How serious of a problem is domestic violence and child abuse today?
Q. Let’s talk about that what are some ways that we can all help stop domestic violence against children?
Q. What about foster care? Is there a shortage of foster parents for kids in crisis?
Q. What are some things that people interested in becoming a foster parent should consider?
Q. You wrote a blog earlier this year listing 15 ways to fix foster care. What are they?
Q. You are someone who walks the talk, if ever I’ve seen an example of that. You work on behalf of children who need foster care, and you’ve parented more than 60 yourself? And you and your wife are caring for 10 kids now? Why? How?
Q. How can you possibly provide the individual attention that these children deserve?
Q. The Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell saga was shocking and disgusting. What were your thoughts with how that case played out? Epstein being found dead in his jail cell and Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking in support of Epstein’s sex enterprise.
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