This time we are talking about a kind of a heavy topic, adoption and how it affects the children and everyone around.

In this podcast:

• Jeena
• Emilie Högberg
• Kim Warnesjö

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

*** Intro

**** Where are you from? Where do you live now?

**** How old were you when you got adopted/foster family?

**** Your occupation?

*** Adoption

**** Difference between adoption and a foster family?

**** Why?

***** Who adopts?

****** Family members?

******* New partner

****** Strangers

****** From a different country

**** How?

***** Open vs. closed adoption

****** Child knows who biological parents are

****** Child doesn't know

***** Foster care adoption

****** Many children

***** Embryo adoption

***** Money for children

***** Celebreties

**** Fraud

***** Forced adoption during war, 200k polish children to german

adoptive parents

*** Effects on adoptees

**** Identity crisis

***** lack of medical history

***** broken thread of family continuity

**** Parent-infant system

***** Nature ensures some initial flexibility with respect to the

adults who take on the parental role

*** Effects on the biological parents

**** Do they miss their kids

**** Regret

*** Adoptive parents

**** Parenting

**** Relationship

**** No accidental kids

*** Siblings

**** How is the bond during childhood?

**** How is it in your adult life?

*** Reunion with biological parents?

**** What would you ask?