Legal Process of Domestic Adoption: What You Need to Know Before You Adopt
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
12/04/20
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Do you know how the legal process of adoption works? How do you get an original birth certificate? How do you get a social security number for your adopted child? We talk with Brinton Wright, an adoption attorney and Fellow in the Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys about the legal and social implications of adoption.
In this episode, we cover:
- Different types of adoption.
- The difference between voluntary and involuntary termination of parental rights.
- What is meant by a "legal risk" adoption.
- What is meant by open 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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Coping with the Stress of Infertility
November 27, 2020
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We talk about Coping with the Stress of Infertility with Dr. Tonya Wood, a clinical psychologist specializing in family planning, pregnancy loss and infertility. She is the Director of Clinical Training at Pepperdine University and is 2020 President of the California Psychological Association.
In this episode, we cover:
- Why is infertility so stressful?
- What are the losses women experience when they realize that either they or their partner is infertile?
- What are the losses men experience when either they or their partner is infertile?
- Why do some patients feel shame or guilt surrounding their infertility?
- What is ambiguous loss and why is that type of loss more stressful?
- How can infertility impact marriages and partnerships?
- How do men and women deal with the stress of infertility in different ways?
- What are healthy techniques to deal with the stress of infertility?
- Importance of not postponing life while in infertility treatment.
- Should patients share that they are infertile with others?
- What are some of the cultural, racial, and religious differences in how people experience infertility stress? What are the differences in how they cope with the losses and grief of infertility?
- Are there specific triggers or times of year that are more stressful for many people?
- What can clinics and medical professionals do to help patients cope with the stress of infertility?
- What aspects of the clinic experience or treatment experience contributes to the stress of infertility?
- How to find a therapist that specializes in infertility?
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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Impact of COVID-19 on Surrogacy
December 11, 2020
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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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