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
- 745
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Classic Episode: Tips for Parenting a Child with ADHD
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Raising a child with Attention Deficit Disorder is hard on kids and hard on parents. How to parent a child with Attention Deficit Hyp…
Classic Episode: Traditional Chinese Medicine and Infertility
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How can Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) be used to treat infertility. Can acupuncture and TCM be used with western infertility med…
Myths about Having an Only Child
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Should you have only one child? Is it fair to your child? Is it fair to you? Host Dawn Davenport will talk with Lauren Sandler, autho…
What Happens in an Infertility Lab
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What happens inside an embryology lab at an infertility clinic? How important is the laboratory to the success of IVF. How do labs di…
Adopting from Asia
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Have you ever considered international adoption? Can you adopt from China, Korea, Taiwan, or Hong Kong? What are the requirements and…
Adoption Tax Credit 2013
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The adoption tax credit is a great way to help fund your adoption, though it is often underutilized. Host Dawn Davenport will intervi…
Considering Single Motherhood
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Should you become a single mother? What are your options? How do you raise healthy happy kids as a single parent? Host Dawn Davenport…
Adopting through an Adoption Lawyer
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What is the adoption process when adopting through an adoption attorney for those wanting to adopt a baby in the US? How do you find …
Affect of Early Life Experiences on Adopted Children
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Host Dawn Davenport will interview Dr. Charles Nelson, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and one of the leading exper…
What Expectant Women Look for When Choosing Adoptive Parents
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Each expectant woman considering placing her child for adoption is looking for something special in the adoptive parent she chooses. …
Dealing with Infertility and Miscarriage Grief
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The pain and losses of infertility and miscarriage are often not recognized by our society. It is hard to mourn a loss others do not …
Legal Issues You MUST Consider with Egg/Sperm Donation & Surrogacy
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Egg donation, sperm donation, and surrogacy can have significant legal concerns. It is important that infertility patients considerin…
Maximizing Chances of Pregnancy in Fertility Treatment
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It is so hard to know how long to stay at each level of infertility treatment. How many months on Clomid, how many IUIs (artificial …
Inside Transracial Adoption: Talking About Race
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Transracial Adoptions (Interracial Adoption) are becoming more common. Adoptive parents must talk with their children abour race, bu…
Increasing Success with IVF
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To get pregnant using fertility treatment, such as in vitro fertilization, requires good embryos. Up unitl recently choosing the bes…
Reluctance to Donor Egg, Sperm, or Embryo in Your Family
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Overcoming Reluctance to Donor Egg, Sperm, or Embryo in Your Extended Family. This was a topic suggested by our audience. There are …
Toddler Adoption
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Adopting a toddler is NOT the same as adopting an infant or adopting a school aged child. As the waiting times for international adop…
Adopting and Raising a Child with HIV
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The stigma against HIV is alive and well in the US and the world, and no where does this play out more poignantly than in the thousa…
Getting Pregnant After Cancer
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What are the risks of attempting to get pregnant after cancer? Should you try? How long should you wait. What is the risk to the chi…
Fertility and Your Immune System
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Can your immune system affect your ability to get pregnant or stay pregnant? What is the immunological conncetion to infertility or …