Adopting a Child from Another State
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
12/18/20
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How do you find and adopt a baby or child in another state and what is the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children (ICPC)? We talk with Chantilly Wijayasinha, MSW and MPH and Interim Director of Adoptions and Foster Care at Vista Del Mar Child & Family Services; and Jim Thompson, adoption, foster care, and assisted reproduction attorney at the Thompson Dove Law Group, and a Fellow at Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys.
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.
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Impact of COVID-19 on Surrogacy
December 11, 2020
•32m
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How is the COVID-19 pandemic impacting those people who are trying to create their family through surrogacy —both those seeking surrogates in the US and those going abroad. We talk with Dr. Barry Witt, the Medical Director of WINFertility and Greenwich Fertility.
In this episode, we cover:
- How is surrogacy practiced in the US?
- What is the distinction between gestational surrogate and a traditional surrogate?
- Is it possible to go abroad to find a surrogate?
- Why do people go abroad?
- What are the most popular countries for people to go to for surrogacy? (including the US)
- How has COVID-19 impacted intended parents seeking surrogates in the US?
- How has COVID-19 impacted people seeking surrogates in another country, including those coming to the US?
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
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Healing After Abuse and Neglect
December 24, 2020
•60m
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Children adopted from foster care or from abroad have often experienced abuse, neglect, or trauma. These children require a different form of parenting. This is a re-air of an older interview we did with the late Dr. Karyn Purvis, author of The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family, and the founder and Director of the TCU Institute of Child Development, about how to help children from hard places heal.
In this episode, we cover:
- Why is parenting abused children different from traditional parenting?
- What are the 3 most important things you should do during the first 6 months home with a newly adopted child?
- How can we discipline our children while still remaining connected and create attachment?
- How can we help a child who has tantrums whenever he hears the word “no,” or is told he can’t do something?
- How long should parents stay home (if possible) after adoption?
- How can parents be proactive with children who have experienced abuse and neglect in order to help them and to improve behavior?
- Parenting kids adopted from foster care and internationally can be hard on the marriage and especially when one of the parents is the one getting educated on the type of parenting these kids need and the other one has not “bought into” it yet. How to help both parents get on the same page.
- How should parents handle criticism (implied or direct) about their parenting style when they are trying to follow the empower to connect style?
- What are some practical tools for encouraging attachment?
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
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