Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care

An Interview with Author Nicole Chung


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Nicole Chung, author of All You Can Ever Know, has done it again with another wonderful memoir about growing up as a transracial adoptee and then losing both her adoptive parents. A Living Remedy is a story about family love and loss, regardless of how the family is formed.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • Family love. 
    • You were well, if not always perfectly, loved.
    • You were temperamentally different from your parents, especially your dad. This may be more common in adoption. How did these differences impact you growing up?
    • Things my mom sent me, I sent my mom, my mom gave me. 
  • Growing out of the socioeconomic level you were raised in.
    • Your mother thought you were ashamed of them. 
  • What is middle class?
    • There is a big difference between being working class and middle class.
    • “Our “broke” bore no resemblance to my parent's “broke.” …We always had options.
  • The impact of lack of money on health.
  • Impact of Covid on families trying to care for loved ones.
  • Your sister Cindy. 
    • Cindy wasn’t well-loved. How did she deal with the differences in her life vs your life?

This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a 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/blog posts
  • Resource pages on all aspects of family building

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  • Weekly articles/blog posts
  • Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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