A Guide to Raising Your Grandchild
We talk about raising your grandkids with Christine Adamec, coauthor with Dr. Andrew Adesman, of The Grandfamily Guidebook. She and her husband have b...
Creating a Family: Talk about Infertility, Adoption & Foster Care
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Creating a Family is the national infertility, adoption, & foster care education and support nonprofit. We interview leading experts on infertility, adoption, and foster care each week to bring you unbiased accurate information. In adoption, we cover how to adopt a baby, open adoption, foster care adoption, international adoption, attachment parenting, transracial adoption, special need adoptions and more. In infertility, we cover the latest advances in in-vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, infertility medications, emotional issues, egg or sperm donation, surrogacy, how to choose a fertility clinic and more. In foster care, we cover how to become a foster parent, parenting children who have experienced trauma, foster subsidies, and more. For more great resources be sure to check out our website at creatingafamily.org
Talking With Your Adopted or Foster Child About the Hard Parts of Their Story
Talking with your adopted or foster child about the hard parts of their story can feel like a daunting task. Should you tell your child that her birth...
Primary Ovarian Insufficiency
Primary Ovarian Insufficiency is a difficult and little understood diagnosis for infertility with ramifications for your general health as well as for...
How to Afford Adoption
What are some tried and true ways to afford adoption? In this episode, we talk with Julie Gumm, author of You Can Adopt Without Debt: Creative Ways t...
Family Building Challenges for Military Families: Adoption, IVF & Fostering
We talk about the challenges of adopting, fostering, IVF, or third-party reproduction while being in the military. We talk with the co-founders of the...
Kinship Caregivers & The Hidden Foster Care System
Kinship caregivers (primarily grandparents raising their grandchildren) are often functioning as a shadow foster care system. We talk with Josh Gupta-...
The Traumatic Impact of Racism
The trauma of racism impacts our children's physical and emotional health. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Roger Harrison, a clinical assistant...
Uterine Fibroids: Causes, Treatment, and Impact on Fertility
What do you need to know about uterine fibroids if you want to get pregnant? We talk with Dr. Desiree McCarthy-Keith, is the Medical Director of Shady...
How to Raise an Intense Child
Do you have a child that is more—more loud, more energetic, more argumentative, more everything? Intense children can be harder to raise, but their in...
How to Become a Foster Parent
Have you ever thought about becoming a foster parent but didn't know where to begin? This is the show for you! We talk with Vicki Ochoa, State Di...