Searching for Birth Family and Volunteering with Foster Care: A Talk with Lynn Grubb

The world that seemed normal to Angela Legg as she grew up didn't look normal to the society that surrounded her. She didn't realize this until she was much older. In her life, she had two loving fema...

9 Maalis 36min

In this episode, I introduce you to who I am and what my adoption and foster care journey has been like. It has taken me quite a while to reach the point where I was ready to put my background in the ...

9 Helmi 31min

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...

6 Tammi 34min

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...

31 Joulu 202530min

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,...

13 Joulu 202534min

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...

2 Joulu 202531min

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...

26 Elo 202534min

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...

12 Heinä 202533min