718 Episodes

  1. Trauma and the Teen Years

    Published: 29/03/2025

  2. Partnering With Relatives for Kinship Care

    Published: 26/03/2025

  3. What Do I Call My Child's Birth Mother? - Weekend Wisdom

    Published: 22/03/2025

  4. When Birth Parents Struggle with Addiction, Mental Health, or Intellectual Disabilities

    Published: 19/03/2025

  5. When Do I Tell My Child They Have Birth Siblings? - Weekend Wisdom

    Published: 15/03/2025

  6. Adopting Siblings: Issues to Consider

    Published: 12/03/2025

  7. My Child Tells Others We Aren't Meeting Her Basic Needs - Weekend Wisdom

    Published: 8/03/2025

  8. Help, I Don't Think I Can Continue With This Adoption!

    Published: 5/03/2025

  9. Coping with Stillbirth After Adoption Match - Weekend Wisdom

    Published: 1/03/2025

  10. Evaluating Risk Factors in Domestic Adoption

    Published: 26/02/2025

  11. How to Connect with Birth Mom with Mental Illness? - Weekend Wisdom

    Published: 22/02/2025

  12. Courage & Resilience: A Foster Child's Story of Success

    Published: 19/02/2025

  13. Can a Non-Native Family Adopt an Indian Child? - Weekend Wisdom

    Published: 15/02/2025

  14. Legal Process of Domestic Adoption: What You Need to Know Before You Adopt

    Published: 12/02/2025

  15. Should We Move to Another Country and Leave Our Extended Family? - Weekend Wisdom

    Published: 8/02/2025

  16. Adopting Older Children

    Published: 5/02/2025

  17. We Want to Adopt, but My Father-in-Law Has Terminal Cancer - Weekend Wisdom

    Published: 1/02/2025

  18. Adopting or Fostering a Child with Down Syndrome

    Published: 29/01/2025

  19. My Foster Son Was Put In a Dog Pen. How Do I Help Him Heal? - Weekend Wisdom

    Published: 25/01/2025

  20. What Foster Care Alumni Want You to Know

    Published: 22/01/2025

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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 parent possible to this precious child? This is the podcast for you! Every week, we interview leading experts for an hour, discussing the topics you care about in deciding whether to adopt/foster or how to be a better parent. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are the 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, and resource pages on all aspects of family building at our website, CreatingaFamily.org. We also have an active presence on many social media platforms. Please like or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

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