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

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

July 13, 2011 Open Adoption in Difficult Birth Parent Situations
Even if you completely embrace the idea of open adoption, there are situations that make it difficult. How should adoptive parents navigate an open adoption in these situations. Should they even try? Join our guest, Nancy Burley, Executive Director and founder of Adoption Circle, an Ohio child placement agency. She has twenty five years of adoption experience working directly with all members of the adoption triad and is a state certified adoption assessor and one of the writers and trainers of the state required curriculum for certified adoption assessors.
1 hr 5 min
June 29, 2011 Adoption in the Facebook, Twitter and Internet Age
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and the Internet are significantly affecting how people adopt and the relationships within adoptive families. Should you friend your child's birth mother or birth father? Should you prohibit your child from contacting their birth family via the internet social networks? What can parents do pre and post adoption. Our guests are Dr. Martha Henry, Director of the Office of Foster Care and Adoption Education and Policy, and a developmental psychologist; and Adam Pertman, Executive Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, and author of Adoption Nation.
1 hr 3 min
June 22, 2011 Latest Developments in Diagnosing and Treating PCOS (Polycys
PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) can be a devastating disease affecting many aspects of health, including fertility. Our guest to talk about PCOS is Dr. Heather Huddleston, Medical Director of Center of Reproductive Health at UCSF and Director of Multidisciplinary Clinic for Women with PCOS. infertility, fertility, weight gain, insulin resistance, hair growth
1 hr 2 min
June 15, 2011 Fertility Tourism: Cross-Border Reproductive Care
Infertility tourism is becoming more popular.More infertility patients are considering cross-border reproductive care. How can you find an infertility clinic abroad. How do you know the success rate of the foreign infertility clinic. Is it safe? What are the risks? How much does it cost to do IVF or ICSI or egg donation abroad. Our guests to talk about how to go abroad for treatment will be Lauri de Brito, Co-Founder, Vice President of Global IVF.com and Taras Kuzin Founder and CEO of MedVacation.
1 hr 2 min
June 08, 2011 Adopting from Latin America or Adopting a Latino Child Domes
Is it possible to adopt from Latin America? What countries in Central and South America are open to international adoption. How can you adopt a Hispanic baby or child in the United States? Our guests are Nancy Fox, Executive Director of Americans for International Aid and Adoption with a program in El Salvador; Beth Whitacre,Latin American Program Caseworker for the Gladney Center for Adopiton in Dallas Texas with international adoption programs in Honduras and Colombia; and Jennifer Lanter, Director of outreach and public information with Gladney. She is also a Lead Master Trainer for the National Council for Adoption for domestic adoption.
Adopting from Mexico. Adopting from Guatemala. Status of international adoptions from Guatemala. Adopting from Colombia. Adopting from Peru. Adopting from Honduras. Adopting from El Salvador.
1 hr 4 min
June 01, 2011 How to Adopt from Africa
What countries in Africa are open to international adoption? What is the process and cost to adopt from Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo? Are there ethical issues to consider with international adoptions from Ethiopia or other African countries. How can adoptive parents avoid the potential ethical issues with international adoptions from Africa? Adopting an orphan from Africa. Adopting from Ethiopia, Adopting from Uganda, Adopting from Ghana, Adopting from Congo, Adopting from Kenya, Adopting from South Africa, Adopting from the Sudan.
1 hr 4 min
May 25, 2011 Egg and Ovarian Tissue Freezing
Is it possible for a woman to freeze her eggs or ovarian tissue to use later when she is ready to become a mother? Are there any advantages to freezing eggs when going through IVF? Can frozen eggs be sued for a donor egg IVF cycle. Does it cost less to use frozen eggs for a donor cycle. Is it safe to freeze your eggs? Join our guests, Dr. Dan Shapiro is the medical director of Reproductive Biology Associates in Atlanta and one of the founders of MyEggBank, the nation's largest frozen donor egg bank
1 hr 9 min
May 18, 2011 Gender Selection When Trying to Conceive
It is now possible to select the gender of your baby, but should you? What techniques are available? PGD gender selection? Natural sex selection methods. Are they effective? Can you utilize these sex selection techniques for family balancing? How much do these gender selection techniques cost. Should you even try to select the sex of your baby?
Join our guest, Dr. Harvey Stern to discuss the how, why, and should of preconception gender selection and family balancing. Dr. Harvey Stern is the Director of Genetics and the Fetal Diagnostic Center at the Genetics & IVF Institute and is Dr. Stern is Medical Director of Fairfax Cryobank and of GIVF’s Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) program. He is board certified in pediatrics and medical genetics, with subspecialty board certifications in clinical, biochemical and molecular genetics.
1 hr 8 min
May 11, 2011 Adopting from Foster Care
What is the process for adopting from foster care? How long does it take, do you have to foster first, can you adopt a child from another state, should you work with a private or public agency? We will discuss these and many more questions in thie Foster Care Adoption 101 type show. Adopt US kids. 130,000 US children living in foster care are available for adoption.
Join our guests Jennifer Deazvedo, Waiting Child Adoption Coordinator for Children’s Connection Inc., Dr. Dixie Davis, Executive Director of The Adoption Exchange and the Wednesday’s Child Foundation which recruit and sustain families for children in foster care, and Jennifer M. Phillips, Adoption Supervisor with Lutheran Social Services of Southern New England.
1 hr 2 min
May 03, 2011 Converstaion with Melissa Fay Greene: No Biking in the House
Join me for my interview with Melissa Fay Greene about her new book on adoptive parenting--No Biking in the House Without a Helmet. She is the mother of nine, five of whom were adopted internationally. Her previous books include Praying for Sheetrock, The Temple Bombing, Last Man Out, and There is No Me Without You. she has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Good Housekeeping, and The Atlantic. Her children were adopted from Ethiopia and Bulgaria.
1 hr 6 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…