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Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
07/06/24
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Question: We are planning to adopt our third child. We have reason to believe that my husband’s parents will oppose this idea. Do you have any advice on how to approach them?
Resources:
- Transitioning Your Child to Your Home
- Winning Over Reluctant Extended Family to Your Adoption Plans
- Sibling Relations (Combing Children by Birth & Adoption)
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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Interview with the Author of "Relinquished"
July 3, 2024
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Join us for this discussion with Dr. Gretchen Sisson, the author of Relinquished, the Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood.
In this episode, we cover:
- Book focuses on private adoptions between 2000-2020. Not on parents where parental rights were terminated by the state and not on international adoptions.
- Full of first-person stories from birth moms.
- How many women are currently placing a child for adoption compared to the number of births?
- How does this compare to the number of women who decide on abortion? Only 25 % considered adoption, and only 9% relinquished. Turnaway Study
- 90% of relinquishing moms considered parenting, but only 40% considered abortion.
- What is the demographic of the mom who relinquishes her child for adoption between 2000-2020?
- Why do women relinquish or choose adoption?
- What does the research show on how many women who decide against abortion or can’t have an abortion because their pregnancy is too advanced opt for adoption?
- Why do so few women who are considering an abortion not consider adoption?
- Very often, the moms in your book and in your research describe adoption as their only option. Why were the other options not seen as viable? “When women have more options available to them, they are less likely to relinquish.”
- Options counseling.
- How has openness in adoption changed things?
- Some research shows birth moms are mostly happy with their decision to place a child for adoption. NCFA Adoption Profile: Birth Parents Experience (1400 birth parents)
- The issues of substance abuse disorder, acute mental illness, or extreme poverty are real. Why is it not in the child’s best interest for the mom to choose adoption?
- Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997- “fast-tracked termination of parental rights”—failed to talk about the reality of kids growing up in foster care.
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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Parent's Guide to Working with the Schools on Behavior
July 10, 2024
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Do you have a child who acts out at school? Do you struggle with how to work with the school to help your child? If so, don't miss today's interview with Sarah Naish, the CEO and Founder of the Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma and the author of many books on foster parenting, including The A-Z of Trauma-Informed Teaching.
In this episode, we cover:
- Why do our kids often have behavioral problems?
- What are some typical behaviors that are problematic in school?
- What is it about school that exacerbates behavior issues?
- How much training does the average teacher have on the long-term impact of trauma on a child?
- How much training does the average teacher have on the long-term impact of prenatal exposure to alcohol and drugs on a child?
- Many of our kids will have an IEP or 504 Plan. How to address behavioral issues in these plans?
- Let’s say you have a child who is acting out (i.e., being defiant, not following rules, disrupting class, and other externalized behavioral issues); what would be your suggestions for a parent to work with the school on these behaviors?
- Let’s say you have a child who is withdrawing or fading into the woodwork (i.e., internalized behavioral issues); what would be your suggestions for a parent to work with the school on these behaviors?
- That doesn’t mean that there doesn’t need to be consequences.
- Question from our audience: Child is being defiant in school and refuses to finish her assignments. Teacher sends the unfinished assignments home to be completed by the next day, in addition to the child’s homework. Parents are spending the entire evening working with child to finish the work. How would you suggest handling it?
- Thoughts on homework?
- Blame, embarrassment
- Homeschooling
- What are some ways parents can start the school year off right to set the stage for working with the school to help their child succeed?
- Tips for parenting in working with the schools.
- Share info
- Share trauma-informed teaching resources.
- Be honest and upfront about what you will and won’t do. Ex. Homework.
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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