David Bohl - Adoption & Addiction (Part Two)
In the second episode of our two-part adoption and addiction series, Jane speaks to David Bohl about the relationship between adoption and addiction. David is an adoptee from the USA who is a Clinical...
16 Jun 202140min
Kevin Barhydt - Adoption & Addiction (Part One)
Kevin Barhydt is an adoptee living in New York who wrote a memoir about his adoption, childhood sexual abuse, addiction and recovery called 'Dear Stephen Michael's Mother'. By the age of 20, Kevin had...
1 Jun 202147min
Anne Warner - 1991, The Year That Changed Everything
This year (2021), marks 30 years since the 1991 amendments to Queensland's 1964 Adoption of Children Act. The 1991 amendments entitled adopted people and their parents to receive identifying informati...
18 Mai 202131min
Suz Bednarz - Mother's Day
Suz Bednarz is an American mother who lost her daughter to adoption in 1986 and began the process of searching for and attempting to reconnect with her then 18-year old daughter in 2005. Suz began a b...
4 Mai 202155min
Vivienne Timmermans - You Gave Me A Voice
Today's guest is a well known figure in the Queensland adoption community. At age 17, Vivienne Timmermans was an Australian Champion figure skater with big plans for her future. Around the same time, ...
20 Apr 202141min
Heartlines - Susannah McFarlane & Robin Leuba
Jo Sparrow speaks with a mother and an adoptee who wrote a book about their reunion experience. Susannah McFarlane is an adoptee and author, creator and publisher of some of Australia's most successfu...
5 Apr 202154min
Prof Daryl Higgins - AIFS Study into Past Adoption Experiences
Jane speaks to Professor Daryl Higgins about the study titled, "Past Adoption Experiences: National Research Study on the Service Response to Past Adoption Practices" he contributed to and co-authored...
23 Mar 202154min
Discharging an Adoption - Andrea Lynch
In part two of our discussion about discharging an adoption, Jo talks to Jigsaw Qld's Forced Adoption Support Service (FASS)Team Leader, Andrea Lynch more generally about the process and things to con...
9 Mar 202117min
