How Can I Adopt a Baby? - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
08/13/23
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There are several ways to adopt a baby in the US.
- Adopt a newborn or young infant through private adoptions.
- Adopt a baby in the US through the foster care system.
Additional resources on infant adoption:
- How to Adopt in 2023
- Adoption in the US: How Many? How Much? How Long?
- Cost of Adoption
- Domestic Adoption
- Foster Care 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
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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
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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Introduction to Prenatal Substance Exposure
August 9, 2023
•58m
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Are you considering adopting or fostering? Or taking in a relative's child? Do you suspect or know that the birth mom used drugs or alcohol during pregnancy? Join us today to learn how these substances might impact the child and how you parent. Our guest is Dr. Lisa Prock, a Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician, Director of the Developmental Medicine Center at Children’s Hospital, Boston, and Clinical Director of the Translational Neuroscience Center at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
In this episode, we cover:
- Foster, adoptive, and kinship parents and caregivers often need to consider whether they are the right family to parent a child with prenatal alcohol and drug exposure.
- The US government estimates that about 10% of children born in the US have been prenatally exposed to alcohol, drugs, or both. How common is prenatal substance exposure for foster and adoptive children, as well as those kids living with grandparents and other relatives?
- Are there signs or symptoms with a child that may have been exposed to alcohol and drugs in utero, absent confirmation from the mother?
- What is known about the amount or timing of alcohol or drug use and the impact on the baby or child?
- Short-term and long-term impacts of the following substances:
- Alcohol-does it matter the type of alcohol?
- Methamphetamines
- Adderall, Concerta, Ritalin or other ADHD medication
- Opiates/opioids-prescription
- Opioids-illegal
- Heroin
- Fentanyl
- Methadone, Suboxone, Subutex, Buprenorphine
- Marijuana
- Ecstasy, inhalants
- Tobacco-smoking cigarettes or vaping
- How common is dual exposure/polysubstance exposure—alcohol and drugs?
- Do children who have been prenatally exposed to alcohol or drugs have a greater risk of abusing drugs in adolescence or adulthood?
- How do you get a child diagnosed with prenatal substance exposure?
- What should parents consider when trying to decide if they are the right family for a child with prenatal exposure?
- Creating a Family’s Prenatal Substance Exposure Trainings for Parents, Daycare/Preschool Teachers, and Afterschool Staff.
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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Introduction to Domestic Infant Adoption
August 16, 2023
•44m
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Are you considering adopting a baby? Join us today to learn more. Our guests will be Karlee Wagner, a Program Supervisor for Infant Adoption and Birth Parent/Pregnancy Services at Children’s Home and LSS in Minnesota (CH/LSS); Erin Quick, the Founder and CEO of PairTree - the organization dedicated to helping families navigate private adoption in the healthiest way possible and mom of two through adoption; and Courtney Lott, the owner and founder of Faithful Adoption Consultants, a consulting service that seeks to walk adoptive families through the adoption process from beginning to end. She is a mom to eight children: six through adoption and two biologically.
In this episode, we cover:
- How many domestic private infant adoptions happen in the US each year?
- Average cost of adopting a baby in the US.
- Average length of time prospective parents wait for an adoption match.
- Creating a Family article: Adoption in the US: How Many? How Much? How Long?
- What is the domestic infant adoption process at your agency or organization?
- How does the process differ when using an adoption attorney rather than an adoption agency?
- How do domestic infant adoptions today differ from how many people think about adoptions?
- What type of expectant mom considers adoption for their child?
- How many adoptive parent profiles are usually shown to an expectant mom?
- What do you see that expectant moms or couples look for when choosing adoptive parents?
- Is it harder for single women to be selected by expectant moms or couples?
- Is it harder for same-sex couples or singles to be selected by expectant moms or couples?
- After an expectant mother or couple chooses an adoptive family, what is the next step?
- What type of counseling is available for expectant parents both before and after the adoption is finalized?
- What are the ways that different adoption agencies and attorneys handle birth parent expenses?
- How early in the pregnancy do adoption agencies and adoption attorneys match expectant moms with adoptive families?
- What does open adoption look like?
- What percentage of domestic infant adoptions in the US are open?
- What are some typical "special needs" that prospective adoptive parents may be faced with in matches? What situations are the hardest for adoptive parents to decide about?
- How much information will adoptive parents have in deciding whether they should accept a match?
- What factors influence the cost of adoption?
- What factors influence how long families wait for an adoption match?
- What’s your best advice if someone has applied to adopt an infant and is not getting selected by an expectant mom?
- Failed Adoption Matches: How Common? How Costly? How to Survive
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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