Mark Daley

Just 4 months after finally being able to legally marry, Jason and Mark begin the process to become Dads. They check into surrogates, but decide to sign up for foster-to-adopt based on knowing how many children in the US are in need of a good, stable family.
Daley, for the most part, is good at balancing the facts about children at risk with the ongoing story of their experience with the 2 boys who are placed in their care. He reinforces the need for having a good support system: friends and show more family who will also be involved in the children's lives, give them a welcome, and help with care and parenting tips. It probably also helped that they had flexible jobs and enough money that they could get the baby supplies they would need, hire a nanny, and upgrade to a car with more room. He was careful to explain all the difficult aspects of fostering, most of them involving the difficulties of navigating the county system and getting response from the overworked social workers managing the children's case.
Review based on an ARC, so my discomfort with the lengthy repetition of Daley's anxiety over fostering and the uncertain future may be have been edited down. show less