Can You Adopt a Baby From Foster Care? - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
11/12/23
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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:
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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
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- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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Adopting a Child From Another State
November 8, 2023
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If you are thinking about adoption, you've likely considered the possibility that you will be adopting a child in another state. In this episode, we talk about everything involved with this process. Our guests are Jim Thompson, an adoption attorney and the author of the book South Carolina Adoption Law and Practice. He has been a Fellow of the Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys since 1993 and Joan Smith, the District Supervisor of the Pittsburgh office of Adoptions From the Heart.
In this episode, we cover:
Infant Adoption
- Is it possible to adopt an infant in another state?
- How does a prospective adoptive parent find an expectant mother in another state?
- What things must prospective adoptive parents be cautious of when looking for expectant parents in another state, especially if they are not working with an adoption professional?
- How does the domestic infant adoption process differ when the adoptive parents and the expectant moms live in different states?
- What is the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children (ICPC)?
- What are the steps on the ICPC as it applies to domestic infant adoption?
- What state’s adoption laws will be used for the adoption?
- How long should adoptive parents expect the ICPC process to take?
Adopting from Foster Care (relative adoption and non-relative adoptions)
- Is it possible to adopt a child from foster care in another state?
- Can you foster a child in foster care in another state?
- How do you find a child in foster care in another state legally free to adopt?
- How does the foster care adoption process differ when the prospective adoptive parents and the child live in different states?
- What are the steps with the ICPC as it applies to foster care adoption?
- How do visitations between the adoptive family and the child work?
- How are adoption subsidies handled when adopting a foster child from another state?
- Which state pays the adoption subsidy?
- How are health care benefits or Medicaid handled?
Resources:
AdoptUSKids Understanding Interstate Adoption
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
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
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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Triplets Separated at Birth
November 15, 2023
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You're really going to want to tune in to hear the story of triplets separated at birth through adoption. It is particularly interesting to hear how they have processed the experience differently and how they feel about adoption.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Kathleen’s (the birth mom) experience. Why did she decide to place two of the babies for adoption?
- When did you find out you were triplets?
- What was the agreement at the time of adoption about the degree of openness?
- Was this openness agreement followed, and how do you feel about that?
- The podcast focuses on the loss of the sibling connection. How did the separation affect each of you?
- How do/did Kendall and Julianne feel the loss of your birth mom and not being parented by her?
- Primal Wound?
- The focus in the podcast, understandably, was on the reunion of the three sisters. However, I’m curious about the reunion between Jules and Kenny and Kathleen, their birth mom.
- Feeling the odd one out?
- Donor conception? Who was the driving force behind finding the sperm donor?
- Did connecting with the donor fulfill anything for you?
- What are the lingering impacts of having been separated at birth?
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
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
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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