An Adoptive Parent rethinks International Adoption with Marjie Alonso (00:34:56)
As adoptive parents, we often try our best to do our research to find a program to adopt through that seems ethical. Sometimes we find out later that the situation our adopted children were in was far...
Parenting Advice From an Adoptee and Expert with Bryan Post (00:30:52)
Parenting is not an easy task. Bryan Post, an adoptee and Therapist, used his own experience as well as research and training to develop a technique that involves what he calls a love-based approach t...
Lynelle Long Leads Adoptees to Help Each Other and Educate the Rest of Us (00:34:41)
When Lynelle Long wanted to connect with other international adoptees like herself as an adult, she had a hard time finding them. She decided that there should be a better way for adoptees to connect,...
Getting to Know First Mothers with Gretchen Sisson (00:31:20)
There is a lot of debate that centers around women who relinquish their children. We talk about who they might be and why they might be making the decisions they are, often without any insight into th...
Moving Toward More Educated Adoption Conversations With Jean Widner (00:34:08)
Jean Widner's adoptee story doesn't start dramatically. She was raised in a stable home with adoptive parents who offered her the basic support that children need to have. As she grew and learned more...
Helping Young Adults Succeed Beyond Foster Care with Maurita McCorkle (00:33:27)
One population of foster children that often doesn't get the right kind of attention is those who age out of foster care. This cliff that youth often fall off of exists due to many factors. Some of th...
What Adoption Memoirs Can Teach us: A Talk With Marianne Novy (00:32:07)
Marianne Novy was an adoptee who was encouraged to hide that fact and obliged the people around her by keeping quiet about it until she became a college student. Over time she chose to seek out member...
A First Parent Surprise with Ed Di Gangi (00:37:43)
Edward Di Gangi didn't feel the pull to search out his first family until later in life. He felt content with the life he was living and it took a series of events to put in his mind the determination...
Isaac Etter Discusses Adoptees and Identity (00:30:20)
Isaac Etter grew up as a black boy surrounded by a loving but also primarily white family. It took him a long time to understand his full identity and how his race affected his place in the world. Ove...
Families who adopt children with severe behaviors from foster care have a chance at hope thanks to Katie Rose Noto. (00:38:45)
Katie Rose Noto always knew she wanted to adopt a child at some point in her life. She imagined a house full of children and dogs. As her life progressed she made the choice to dive into being a foste...
A Native American Adoptee Discovers Her Roots (00:35:02)
When Susan Fedorko was growing up she was content with her life and felt secure and cared for. In the back of her mind, however, this adoptee always wondered about the family that had allowed her to b...
A Path Through Suicidality With Beth Syverson and Joey Nakao (00:31:20)
Beth Syverson and her adopted son Joey Nakao have been on a difficult journey for a number of years. They have been facing the issues of addiction and suicidality. In light of these intense topics, so...
Investigating International Adoption has a lot to Teach Us. (00:37:03)
There are many Christians in the world of adoption and many of them do wonderful work supporting foster families, and foster children, and making sure children outside of the country who need homes ca...
Trace Lara Hentz Talks About the Importance of "The Count 2024" to Native American Adoptees Everywhere. (00:33:38)
Most of us have heard bits and pieces about how poorly America has treated the Native Tribes that have lived on this land. We may not understand fully how adoption was weaponized against tribes to rai...
Searching for Birth Family and Volunteering with Foster Care: A Talk with Lynn Grubb (00:35:16)
Lynn Grubb felt fairly comfortable growing up as an adoptee. Then, when she became an adult she got curious and decided she wanted to find her birth family. The process wasn't smooth for her and she l...
In America, But Not at Home: A Discussion With Patricia Knight Meyer about her adoption story and how she processed her trauma through writing. (00:30:20)
Patricia Knight Meyer's story seems foreign compared to the happy renditions of adoptive families brought together for happy holiday photos. She was adopted quietly, without proper paperwork. This lef...
Should We Rethink How We Care for First Mothers? a talk with Carlynne Hershberger (00:25:21)
When Carlynne Hershberger found out she was pregnant at 19 she could never have known then how that experience would shape the rest of her life. Many women don't. In Carlynne's case she became a victi...
What will Embryo Adoption Mean for the Future of Family building: a Talk with Risa Cromer (00:44:55)
Adoption is changing. Technology now makes it possible to adopt the embryos left over from couples who have attempted or succeeded in IVF treatments. Oversight and regulation of this transaction is in...
How Two Dads Adopted in the UK (00:32:31)
Nick Adam's King and his husband began their adoption journey years ago with the adoption of their son. Later they adopted again and their daughter joined the family. Nick helps me understand how adop...
A Ride on the Orphan Trains with Andrea Warren (00:38:12)
The orphan trains were an early experiment in American history in which well meaning adults in large East Coast cities put children that didn't appear to be in the care of an adult on a train out west...
When Adopted Children Need a Second Chance (00:31:49)
JeNae Goodrich was adopted into her own family as a child. Growing up surrounded by adopted siblings helped prepare her for her life of social work, but she couldn’t have predicted that she would hav...
An Australian Adoptee Shares Her Story (00:28:51)
Nadia Levitt was adopted by her loving parents by the time she was seven years old in Australia. She grew up in a caring environment, but when teen angst caught up with her at age 15 she ran away. Thi...
A Talk With Eric's Other Mother (00:27:01)
Laura Orsini didn’t know her life was about to change, but the positive pregnancy test did for her what it has done for so many other women who aren’t expecting or ready for a child. It shocked her br...
Building a Foster Parent Support Group with Lauren (00:25:53)
You don’t have to adopt or be a foster parent to play an important role in helping children stay in stable homes. Lauren runs a ministry in her church that specifically supports foster families within...
The Black Adoptive Parent Experience with Adoptive Black Mom (00:35:36)
Adoptive Black Mom was busy working on her career and waiting to see if a traditional family would happen for her. This was not what the universe dealt her. As she moved through her life she began to ...
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