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

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

April 14, 2010 Raising a Child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Drug Exposure
What are the risk factors for adopting a child with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. What’s the prognosis for children who have been exposed to alcohol or drugs during pregnancy. Our guest will be Dr. Julian Davies, a pediatrician that specializes in both adoption medicine and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
1 hr 31 min
April 07, 2010 Panel Discussion with Adult Transracial Adoptees
Join us for a frank discussion with the real experts—adults of color who were adopted by white parents as children. They can tell us much about what worked, what didn’t, what they would suggest to this generation of transracial adoptive parents. Our adoptees were adopted domestically, as well as from Korea, China, and Colombia.
1 hr 31 min
March 31, 2010 Getting the Most Out of Each Visit to the Infertility Clinic
What should you expect when you go to an infertility clinic? How can you make the most of each visit? Join our panel of head nurses at three of the leading infertility clinics in the US. Infertility nurses are, in my not so humble opinion, the unsung heroes of infertility treatment.
1 hr 31 min
March 24, 2010 Endometriosis
Endometriosis affects at least 6 million women in the US and Canada and millions more throughout the world. It’s the number one cause of pelvic pain and can affect many aspects of a woman’s health and her fertility. Our guest will be Dr. Naveed Khan, a board certified reproductive endocrinologist with Shady Grove Fertility Centers in the Washington, DC metro area who writes and speaks frequently on the treatment of endometriosis.
1 hr 31 min
March 17, 2010 Single Parenthood by Choice
More women and men are choosing to become parents without a partner either by donor sperm, donor egg and surrogate, or adoption. What should you know before you make this choice. What advice can help you if you have already made the choice. Joim our guests Mikki Morrissette, single mom through donor sperm and author of Choosing Single Motherhood, and Ann-Marie Kennedy, single mom through adoption
1 hr 31 min
March 10, 2010 Adopting Out of Birth Order, Artificial Twinning and other Controversies in Adoption
General adoption wisdom is that it is best not to adopt out of birth order or to create artificial twins through adoption. What are the realities of these decisions? Is it always a bad idea? Our guests will be Dr. Anne Brodzinsky, psychologist and co-author of Children's Adjustment to Adoption, and Dr. Martha Henry, Director of the Office for Foster Care and Adoption at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and co-author of Adoption in the United States: A Reference for Families, Professionals, and Students.
1 hr 31 min
March 03, 2010 Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Embryo Screening
PGD and PGS offer great hope to many couples trying to prevent passing on genetic abnormalities and to couples trying to conceive without success. Much confusion exists as to the promise and failure of these procedures. Our guest will be one of the leading geneticists and researcher on PGD/PGS, Dr. Mark Hughes, Professor of Genetics, Medicine and Pathology, and Director, Applied Genomics Technology Center of Michigan
1 hr 31 min
February 24, 2010 How to Choose an Egg Donor
The world of egg donation is scary and confusing. How much information is available on potential donors, what factors are important, how do you decide? Our guest to discuss egg donation are Theresa M. Erickson, an attorney who practices exclusively in the areas of family formation, surrogacy, egg and sperm donation and embryo donation; Nancy Block, a co-founder of the Donor Network Alliance (DNA), an online service of compiling many different donor agencies with over 5,000 donors.
1 hr 31 min
February 17, 2010 How to Choose an Adoption Agency
One of the biggest decisions prospective adoptive parents have to make is choosing an adoption agency. We'll talk about how to choose an international adoption agency and a domestic agency or attorney. Our guests are Laura Christianson, author of The Adoption Decision among other books; and Elizabeth Falker, author of The Ultimate Insider’s Guide to Adoption.
1 hr 31 min
February 10, 2010 Mega Adoptive Families
I’ve always been fascinated with large, very large, families. Join us today when we talk with three moms of large (8+) families that have been formed in part by adoption. How in the world do they do it?
1 hr 31 min

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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…