Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family

In his self-narrated debut memoir, Daley details the ups and downs of the foster-to-adopt system, recalling the rocky journey that led to him and his husband, Jason Daley Kennedy, making a permanent home for three siblings. With a heartfelt, compassionate tone, Daley describes how, as newlyweds, he and Kennedy fostered two young boys for a year and a half, letting them go when the courts determined that the birth parents were entitled to reclaim their sons. Daley sensitively allows listeners a window into the frustration and heartbreak they encountered as they worked within the system, trying to guard their hearts while protecting the children and ensuring their needs were being met. Daley’s account of the court hearing where a different set of parents relinquished their parental rights, laying the groundwork for Daley and Kennedy to adopt the children, is harrowing yet uplifting.