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
Adoption Disruptions/Dissolutions: Common?, Causes, Prevent
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Not all adoptions are forever. Some fail. Recent reports by NBC News, the Today Show, and Reuters focused on the devastating outcome…
Long Term Effects of Prenatal Alcohol and Drug Exposure
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Evaluating the risk of Prenatal Alcohol and Drug Exposure is one of the hardest decisions adoptive parents must make. Host Dawn Daven…
How to Interpret IVF Success Statistics
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We tell people to check out the Center for Disease Control statistics before selecting an infertility clinic, but how in the world d…
Should You Freeze Your Eggs to Preserve Your Fertility
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Advances in egg freezing in the last couple of years have been huge. Should you use egg freezing to allow you to wait to have childr…
Should I Adopt a Child with Special Needs
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Most international adoptions are now special needs adoptions, as are adoptions from US foster care. Are you up to adopting a child w…
Traveling with Newly Adopted Children
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Traveling with kids is hard enough when you know them and they know you. How in the world do you travel with with a newly adopted ch…
Practical Considerations When Going Abroad for Treatment
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Increasingly US citizens are looking abroad for infertility treatment, while those in other countries are coming to the US to receiv…
When Should You Move Up the Fertility Treatment Ladder
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It's hard to know when to move up the infertility treatment ladder from Clomid, to IUI (artificial insemination), to IVF, to IVF/ICS…
What Subsidies/ Benefits are Available for Foster Care Adopt
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Most children adopted from US foster care are eligible for an monthly adoption subisdy and other benefits from the state. What benef…
Coping with Infertility Grief After Adopting
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We tell people to work through their grief at not having a biological child or being pregnant or breastfeeding BEFORE they adopt. Th…
Using Integrative Medicine in Fertility Treatment
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How can integrative medicine be used in fertility treatment? What alternative treatments work to increase your chance of success wit…
The Child Catchers: Criticism of the Orphan Care Movement
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Interview with Kathryn Joyce, author of The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption, a new book that is …
Disrupting Birth Order in Adoption
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Should you adopt out of birth order? What risks should parents be aware of. How can adoptive parents make it easier for their childr…
Latest Developments in Genetic Testing
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What advancements have been made in pre-implantatin genetic testing of embryos or genetic testing during pregnancy? Our guest to tal…
Post Adoption Depression--Causes & Prevention
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Post adoption depression and parent attachment disorder are surprisingly common and seldom talked about. After all, you've tried so h…
Donor Insemination: Who's Donating & Who's Receiving
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The use of donor sperm and sperm banks has changed over the years. The men donating has also changed. Host Dawn Davenport will talk …
Diagnosis & Treatment of Recurrent Miscarriages
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Recurrent pregnancy loss (miscarriage) is a heart break. What causes miscarriage? How can they be prevented. Our guests are Dr. Rich…
Mental/Physical Health Issues in Prospective Adoptive Parent
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How are mental health issues and physical disabilities or diseases in prospective adoption parents treated by adoption agencies, a…
Talking about Adoption at Different Ages & Developmental Sta
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Adopted children process adoption differently at different ages and developmental stages. How can parents help their children unders…
Breastfeeding Without Birthing
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Can you breast feed a child you did not give birth to? Should you? How do you breastfeed as an adoptive mother or mother through sur…