Mothers On The Frontline

In this episode, Nate tells us about his journey adopting his young son from the foster system and how the trauma of his son's early life has left a complicated matrix of diagnoses.   Transcription Voice: Welcome to the Just Ask Mom podcast where parents share their experiences of mothering children with mental illness.  Just Ask Mom is a Mothers on the Frontline production. Today we will speak with Nate, an adoptive single Father of 8-year old Ricky. Nate is a military and railroad veteran and lives in Iowa. Tammy: Tell us a bit about yourself before or after you had your son, just tell us a little bit about you? Nate: Back in 2014 I chose to-- well I guess I should go back even further—when I was 30, I told myself that if I wasn't married with 2.5 kids by the time I was 40, it was time to do something. So I did something and when I was 40 in 2014, I got license to adopt. The end of October in 2014. And that's when the road started. A road that I had never been down and very few people in my family ever h