Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
Are you thinking about adopting or fostering a child? Confused about all the options and wondering where to begin? Or are you an adoptive or foster parent or kinship caregiver trying to be the best parent possible to this precious child? This is the podcast for you! Every week, we interview leading experts for an hour, discussing the topics you care about in deciding whether to adopt/foster or how to be a better parent. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are the national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content: weekly podcasts, weekly articles, and resource pages on all aspects of family building at our website, CreatingaFamily.org. We also have an active presence on many social media platforms. Please like or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 746
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
How Old is Too Old to Be Pregnant
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Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interv…
What Embryonic Genetic Testing Can (and can't) Tell Us
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, in…
Transitioning Home as a Newly Adoptive Family: Things to Prepare For
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Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interv…
Options in Egg Donation
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr…
Why Women of Color are Less Likely to Get Pregnant with Infertility Treatment
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, i…
Trauma-Informed Parenting: Practical Applications of TBRI
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How Microbiome of Reproductive Tract Affects Our Fertility
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr…
Unexpected Stresses on Newly Adoptive Families
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Is There any Such Thing as Anonymous Donation In 3rd Party Reproduction
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, in…
How to Protect Citizenship for Internationally Adopted Children
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, in…
How to Find the 'Right' Sperm Donor
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility education and support nonprofit, interviews Su…
Coping with Miscarriages and Stillbirths
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, in…
Therapeutic Parenting: Practical Applications
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, in…
The Impact of Fostering on Children Already in the Home
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, in…
Understanding Mosaic Embryos
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility education and support nonprofit, interviews Er…
Surviving the Home Study
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, in…
Should You Become a Mom at 40? 45? Options & Reality of Older Motherhood
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, in…
Common Questions with IVF
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, in…
Understanding Infertility Medications
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, in…
Adopting or Fostering a Child Who Identifies as LGBTQ
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Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, in…