Parental Leave: What You Need to Know Before You Adopt or Foster
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
12/28/22
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Are adoptive parents eligible for parental leave? What about foster parents or kinship parents? We talk with Dr. Amy Beacom and Sue Campbell, with the Center for Parental Leave Leadership and co-authors of The Parental Leave Playbook.
In this episode, we cover:
- What are the laws and rules surrounding parental leave in the US?
- Who is eligible for parental leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
- Parental leave on the company level
- How does parental leave differ from maternity leave paternity leave?
- Policies that require employees to pay back their parental leave if they do not stay employed with the company/organization for a certain period of time.
- How does this differ from other countries?
- Are the laws/rules different for mothers and fathers? Are they gender neutral?
- Do you receive your salary when you are on parental leave?
- Does parental leave differ for someone adopting a child?
- Are adoptive families are protected under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
- Are birth mothers eligible for parental leave?
- Does their have to be a legal relationship between the parent and the child? Does parental leave differ for someone fostering a child? Are you eligible for parental leave with every new foster placement?
- Can kinship caregivers receive parental leave?
- The Parental Leave Playbooklays out a process for approaching parental leave in three phases: preparing for your leave, during leave, and returning from leave.
- What steps should you take to be successful in each phase?
To support the Paid Leave for All Act
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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Transracial Adoption: A Mom & Son Talk About What They've Learned
December 21, 2022
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We talk with Isaac and Julie Etter, a mom and son, about what they have learned about transracial adoption and what they wish they had known at the beginning. Isaac is the founder of Identity, a startup focused on using technology to help adoptive and foster families thrive. Julie Etter is a mom of five and a humanities teacher.
In this episode, we cover:
- Isaac, tell us your adoption story from your perspective. Why were you placed for adoption? What were the first two years of your life like? Where you were raised?
- Julie, what was your motivation for adopting? Were there other children in the family?
- What was the racial demographics of your community?
- Julie, what were you taught about transracial adoption before you adopted?
- Isaac, how did you identify racially as a young child? When did you start identifying as black?
- Did you experience racism growing up?
- Julie, did you see racism directed towards Isaac as a child?
- Did you tell your parents?
- Julie, what do you wish you had known before you adopted a Black child? Would you have done anything differently?
- Isaac, what do you want transracial adopted parents to know?
- Julie, what advice would you give other parents who have or are considering adopting tranracially?
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:
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- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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Making Peace with Living Child Free
January 4, 2023
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How do you know when enough is enough? What do you do when infertility treatment and adoption don't end up with you having a child. Join us to talk with Rebecca and Sallyann Majoya, co-authors of the memoir Uncertain Fruit, and Carole LieberWilkins, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist providing individual and couples counseling, as well as psychoeducational consultations, for those moving into alternative paths to parenthood and living child-free.
In this episode, we cover:
- Deciding to live child-free is becoming increasingly common in the US. Research has found that 30 percent of women of childbearing age identifying wanting to live child-free. However, that is not reflective of the people we are speaking to who have likely tried infertility treatment or adoption and it hasn’t worked for them.
- What is the right name: childfree or childless? Are you childfree by choice or childfree not by choice?
- Age is less of a biological cut off point than in the past and that complicates the decision of whether to stop trying to have a child.
- How do people know when it is time to stop trying? What are the signs that it is time to stop. How do you know when enough is enough?
- Is making the decision to live childfree ‘giving up’?
- Are there predictable steps for reaching the decision of when it is time to stop fertility treatment or adoption?
- Determining when you should stop.
- How to decide to stop?
- ‘Trying on’ the future
- Seeking new goal/vision
- Therapy
- How can “giving up the dream” of children impact a couple’s relationship?
- How to handle when both partners are not on the same page.
- Once you’ve made the decision, should you take steps to not get pregnant? The “not-try-but-not-prevent” approach.
- For many, the decision to live child free not by choice causes grief, but this loss is invisible. It’s hard for others to see or understand, so we mourn without the support of our community.
- What can people do to help themselves resolve the grief of not having kids?
- Writing a letter to the child you will never know.
- Giving this dream child a “funeral.” Doing something with the letter that is akin to a funeral. Concrete reminders that the person is gone.
- Create a ritual to say goodbye.
- Writing a memoir.
- Create a new life goal. A new vision for your future.
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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