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Mark Daley is a foster-turned-adoptive dad, author and one of the country's leading voices on recruiting foster parents. His memoir, Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family (Simon & Schuster, 2024), tells the story of how he and his husband, Jason, became parents through foster care, and what that journey revealed about a system that too often fails the families it is meant to protect.

Mark founded TheFosterParent.com, and through his firm, Daley Solutions, he uses data and targeted online outreach to help more than 100 agencies find foster homes, reaching more than 35,000 families. He speaks to child welfare leaders, judges and court staff, and foster and adoptive parents nationwide, and has appeared on ABC's The View, NPR and C-SPAN.

Before foster care became his life's work, Mark spent two decades in communications and public policy, including as a communications director for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, and founded One Iowa. He lives in Los Angeles with Jason and their three children.

“A truly revealing work.” — Hillary Clinton

“If you want a life-changing book, this is the one to read.” — ABC's The View

“A gripping and earnest examination of the meaning of family.” — Publishers Weekly

“A strong indictment of a failed child welfare system, but with an unexpectedly happy ending that speaks to the power of love.” — Kirkus Reviews