These are 40 of our own personal reasons to adopt through foster care. They’re not necessarily for you or anyone else, but they are what compels us. Celebrate National Adoption Month with us! The post Episode 50 – Forty Reasons We’re Adopting Through Foster Care first appeared on Foster & Adoption Parenting Podcast.

Episode 50 – Forty Reasons We’re Adopting Through Foster Care

Foster parents T & W journey through the foster parenting and adoption process

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Curious what foster parents think of Instant Family? We’ve got an early movie review for you here from a real life foster-adoptive family.  Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne play a childless couple who decide to enter parenting through the foster care system and encounter all the struggles of parenting kids who have experienced trauma.  We […] The post Episode 122 – What Do Foster Parents Think of Instant Family first appeared on Foster & Adoption Parenting Podcast.

Episode 122 – What Do Foster Parents Think of Instant Family

T interviews Zach about their adoption and its many unusual circumstances. Their story will leave you inspired and stretch your imagination about what is possible in creating a family. Before listening to this episode make sure to watch this great video of “Meredith’s Big Surprise”



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Episode 116 – Unusual Adoption Story

Have you heard of special laws governing the adoption of children who are of Native American descent? In the US, children who are Native American fall under a specific law called the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which can govern their adoptive and foster placements. T interviews Johnston Moore about ICWA. They discuss the origins […] The post Episode 115 – Indian Child Welfare Act first appeared on Foster & Adoption Parenting Podcast.

Episode 115 – Indian Child Welfare Act

Many foster parents draw firm boundaries between themselves and their foster children’s birth parents. But is this right? In this interview with Saint Fults, a social worker in St. Louis, Missouri, we learn of another perspective of openness toward birth family relationships from the beginning of the child’s placement. Fults advocates that foster parents should […] The post Episode 112 – Opening Up to Birth Parents first appeared on Foster & Adoption Parenting Podcast.

Episode 112 – Opening Up to Birth Parents

We recently were able to participate in the annual Together for Adoption Conference.  This episode is based on the breakout session we led there.
We’ve heard a lot of stories about foster care. Sometimes the stories are in the news, sometimes we hear them from people we know, and sometimes strangers volunteer their perspectives. Rather than sweeping the dirt under the rug, we think we should talk about it.
So this episode is our attempt to confront negative stories about foster care experiences. We talk about abusive foster parents, delays in the adoption process, biased social workers and judges, and the pain of getting attached and having to say goodbye. 
Come see us in person and enjoy other great speakers at the KidBridge Seminar in Rolling Hills Estates, CA on Saturday, October 29!


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Episode 50 – Forty Reasons We’re Adopting Through Foster Care

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