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

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

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

  • Is Donor Sperm/Egg or Surrogacy Harmful for the Kids?

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    Host Dawn Davenport interviewed renowned researcher Dr. Susan Golombok, Director of the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, and author of Modern Families: Parents and Children in New Family Forms; and Dr. Martha Rueter, Associate Professor of Family Social Science at University of Minnesota.
    Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at A-Z Infertility Resource Guide (https://creatingafamily.org/infertility/resources/) 
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    Please leave us a rating or review.  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
    1 hr 4 min
  • Deciding to Live Child Free after Infertility

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    Host Dawn Davenport interviewed Sheridan Voysey, author of Resurrection Year: Turning Broken Dreams Into New Beginnings, a book about his journey to deciding to live childfree after a 10 year struggle with infertility; and Jen Gamper, an infertility therapist with RMA New Jersey.
    Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at out A-Z Infertility Resource Guide (https://creatingafamily.org/infertility/resources/). 
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    Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/deciding-live-child-free-infertility/

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    Please leave us a rating or review.  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
    1 hr 7 min
  • Genetic Testing & Genealogy for Adoptees

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    Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Richard Hill, genealogist and author of Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA; Bethany Waterbury, geneologist with Next of Kin Research; and CeCe Moore, a genealogist, speaker, and teacher of genetic genealogy courses.
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    Support the show

    Please leave us a rating or review.  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
    1 hr 6 min
  • Helping Our Kids Cope with Bullies at School

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    Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Brooke Randolph, LMHC, is a child and family therapist and author of The Bully Book: A Workbook for Kids Coping with Bullies; and Debora Gish, LCSW, with Adoption Connection with 20 experience working with kids and families. Creating a Family has many free resources school issues on Adoption A-Z Resource Guide (https://creatingafamily.org/adoption/resources/ ). Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/aKY47 Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/helping-kids-cope-bullies-school/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/helping-kids-cope-bullies-school/ 

    Support the show

    Please leave us a rating or review.  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
    1 hr 2 min
  • The Microbiome and Fertility

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    Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Jason M. Franasiak, Associate Chair, Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility; and Dr. Erin Wolff, Assistant Clinical Investigator in NICHD and NHLBI.  
    Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at https://creatingafamily.org/infertility/resources/.
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    Support the show

    Please leave us a rating or review.  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
    1 hr 6 min
  • Making the Decision to Become an "Older" Mom

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    Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews a panel of women who became moms over the age of 40 and 45 talking about how they made the decision, how they built their family, and what it is like to be an older mom. 
    Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. 
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    Support the show

    Please leave us a rating or review.  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
    1 hr 7 min
  • Infertility Treatment and Breast/Ovarian Cancer

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    Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Louise Brinton, Senior Scientific Advisor for the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics of the National Cancer Institute (NCI).  During her 40 year career with the NCI, she has focused her research on a wide variety of exposures related to cancer risks among women, including reproductive factors and fertility drugs; Humberto “Bert” Scoccia, MD, Professor and Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago; and Alice Crisci, breast cancer survivor, activist and author.
    Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.
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    Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/infertility-treatment-breastovarian-cancer/

    Support the show

    Please leave us a rating or review.  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
    1 hr 4 min
  • Making Sure Your 3rd Party Reproduction is Legal

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    Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Stephanie Caballero and Catherine Tucker, both reproductive law attorneys covering sperm donation, egg donation, surrogacy, and embryo donation.
    For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/. 
    Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. 
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    Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/making-sure-third-party-reproduction-legal/

    Support the show

    Please leave us a rating or review.  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
    1 hr 4 min
  • Panel of Parents Adopting Older Kids-Surviving The 1st Year

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    Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Melissa Basham, mom to 4 boys adopted from foster care; Abigail Betancourt, mom to 2 kids adopted from foster care; Jan Egozi, mom to one child adopted internationally; and Shelley McMullen, mom to 1 child adopted internationally.
    Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.
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    Support the show

    Please leave us a rating or review.  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
    1 hr 12 min
  • Egg Freezing-Should You? When? How?

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    Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Paul Brezina, a board certified fertility expert Fertility Associates of Memphis. Dr. Maria Mercedes Gondra, an infertility specialist, and Medical director at Gondra Center for Reproductive care and Advanced Gynecology and on site medical director at The World Egg Bank in Phoenix Arizona. Brigitte Adams, Founder of Eggsurance, an organization whose mission is to create a community for women considering freezing their eggs.
    Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.
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    Support the show

    Please leave us a rating or review.  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
    1 hr 6 min

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