Open Adoption Project

In this episode we hear from five teenage adoptees. They share their thoughts and experiences involving adoption in this special mini interview episode hosted by our oldest daughter. You’ll hear from Summer, Mishell, McCoy, James, and Gracie. They’ll talk about how their feelings toward their adoption stories have evolved up to this point, what they wish people understood about adoption, and their advice for other young adoptees who struggle with being different from their peers.

In this episode Melaina, an adoptee, shares her experiences and thoughts about life as a transracial international adoptee. She was born in Colombia and raised in the United States. She shares the struggles and joys she’s experienced and advice for loved ones supporting adoptees in their search for their first family. For more from Melaina, you can follow her on Instagram @melainakrogers where she talks about self-love.

Also, you can see the interviews that she does with others about adoption on her YouTube channel.

We love talking about beautiful open adoption relationships and experiences, but it’s also important to talk about the questionable, unethical and unlawful aspects of adoption. In this episode we talk about the unethical treatment an expectant mom we became friends with experienced, and what hopeful adoptive parents can do to promote better practices in adoption.

In this episode we share about an IVF attempt after adopting our first two children, what IVF looked like for us, and the feelings we had when it didn’t work out.

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In this episode we hear from Crystal--an adoptive mom and a foster parent--and hear her thoughts on creating your own family culture as an adoptive parent as well as the joy that comes from being a foster parent and helping other families.

In this episode, Sharolyn, an adult adoptee, shares what her adoption experience was like growing up in an era where adoption was generally more secretive. In her own family, despite her adoption being closed, adoption wasn’t a secret. She felt empowered to search for her birth parents when she was older, and she shares her experiences with searching, and reuniting with her birth family.

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In this episode, we hear from Nicole, a birth mother who placed her daughter for adoption 22 years ago. Her adoption went from semi-open to open, and today she has a beautiful relationship with her daughter. Nicole shares her story and the emotions of adoption, as well as how the openness of her relationship has changed, and her hopes to connect with and support other women who find themselves in similar situations. She also shares her advice for other birth parents and expectant parents considered adoption as well as thoughts for adoptive parents.

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In this episode we talk about placement, adoption baby showers, and balancing relationships with multiple birth families. We also share an interview with our son, a seven year-old adoptee.

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Have you ever met someone who you felt like you already knew? In this episode we talk about meeting our son’s birth parents, who we truly felt like we’d known for years, and the experiences leading up to the adoption of our sweet first son.

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In this interview episode, we hear from Brianna and Andrew, who are adoptive parents and advocates for ethical adoption. They share advice for those considering transracial adoption, address handling different levels of openness in adoptions, and answer questions submitted by listeners about adoption agencies, ethics, building an adoption profile, and waiting to adopt.

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