An Adoptive Parent rethinks International Adoption with Marjie Alonso
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 Jan 34min
Lynelle Long Leads Adoptees to Help Each Other and Educate the Rest of Us
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 Des 202534min
Getting to Know First Mothers with Gretchen Sisson
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 Des 202531min
Moving Toward More Educated Adoption Conversations With Jean Widner
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 Aug 202534min
Helping Young Adults Succeed Beyond Foster Care with Maurita McCorkle
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 Jul 202533min
What Adoption Memoirs Can Teach us: A Talk With Marianne Novy
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...
7 Mar 202532min
A First Parent Surprise with Ed Di Gangi
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...
6 Des 202437min
