How Do I Handle Shocking Information My Child Shares With Me? - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
06/14/25
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Question: I want to know how I can help my child/foster, or adoptee with issues that arise out of the blue. There are things that happen that you’re not aware of, and it just shocks you and throws you off. As an adult, it’s hard to know how to handle some of these things because you can make it worse for the child. Sometimes I feel like I need a therapist to help me navigate being a foster parent.
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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:
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- Weekly articles/blog posts
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Understanding Adoption: Voices From All Sides
June 11, 2025
•47m
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Join us to discuss how adoption looks and feels from all sides of the adoption triad. Our guests will be the authors Sara Easterly, Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, and Lori Holden of their book, Adoption Unfiltered.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Adoptee Perspective:
- 23 adoptees contributed to this section of the book.
- What are some of the issues adoptees may face?
- Compliance and people-pleasing
- Fantasy Attachments
- Shame
- Interracial Adoptees
- The Danger in the Rescue Narrative
- Role of religionin adoption for adoptees, birth mothers/expectant mothers, and adoptive parents
- Birth Mother:
- Before birth mothers get the chance to ask for help, they ask for mercy.
- Advertisements and search algorithms when searching for adoption information
- Lack of neutral support
- Lack of post-placement support—lingering trauma and grief—It’s a different type of grief and trauma.
- Adoptive Parent:
- Insecurity—who’s the real parent
- Adoption Unfiltered Online
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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How People of Faith Can Support Vulnerable Kids and Families
June 18, 2025
•56m
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How can we get people of faith more involved in helping vulnerable kids and families and supporting foster and kinship families? Join our discussion with Jason Johnson and Shmuly Yanklowitz. Pastor Johnson is with The Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) and is both a foster and adoptive dad. Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz is the Founder & President of YATOM: The Jewish Foster & Adoption Network. Rabbi Yanklowitz has twice been named one of America’s Top Rabbis by Newsweek and is a foster dad.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How can churches, synagogues, mosques, and other faith communities step forward to help families?
- What are the different ways people of faith can help?
- How do we get the rabbis, ministers, and leaders on board?
- Better for the church or synagogue
- What are the biggest obstacles you see for leadership to want to embrace this ministry or program?
- How to get people involved?
- What are the biggest obstacles for people wanting to get involved?
- How can places of faith circle around grandparents and other relatives caring for children?
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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