Birth Parents
How does a birth mother feel? What is placing your baby for adoption like? What are the steps that take place before and after adoption? In these interviews, birth mother's share their stories. Learn why they choose adoption for their babies, what they look for in an adoptive family, and how they came to decide upon the degree of openness desired.
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Why
I Chose a Caucasian Family to Adopt My Baby
Guest:
Talaya
Talaya
is an African American woman who was seeking loving parents
for her soon-to-be-born baby. Find out how she came to
choose a Caucasian couple to be the parents to her child.
Learn how she decided on this family, how she responded
to the reaction of her ten-year-old son, siblings, her
parents, and the community.
Learn as this birth mother shares
her practical advice for other women facing an unplanned
pregnancy and adoptive families seeking to adopt.
Does it help to look beyond race
in adoption? Can this open the door to the perfect
family? What is important in an adoption decision and
what about the future? Listen to this compelling story
of one woman.
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A
Birthmother's Perspective
Guest:
Coley Strickland, founder of BirthMom Buds
Coley
Strickland chose adoption for her child and turned her
experience into a life-changing ministry. Today, Coley
is a birthmother mentor and advocate. She’ll share
intimate details of her experiences and give adoptive families
valuable insights and tips she’s learned from the
many birthmothers she has worked with.
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Discover
the Difference Between
Agency & Private
Adoptions
Guest: Kathleen Calcutt, Adoption Attorney
What is the difference between an agency adoption and a private adoption? How do I determine which kind of adoption is best for me? When I've decided, how do I find the right adoption professional to help? Adoption Attorney Kathleen Calcutt and Host Mardie Caldwell share important tips for choosing the option that's right for you.
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Guest: Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao
Have you ever wondered where you fit within your adoptive family? Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao challenges the adoptive family to think in new ways as she reveals the predictable and understandable developmental stages and challenges confronted by all members of the adopted family.
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Guest: Sierra, birth mother
You’re
young and pregnant. What will you do? Who will you turn to?Sierra
discusses her pregnancy, her relationship with her mother, why she chose adoption,
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Guest: Jim Handy,
Esq.
When
can a birth father give consent? What exactly constitutes a
birth father anyway? Domestic Adoption Attorney, Jim Handy,
answers these questions and more.
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Guest: Charlene Yoder, birth grandmother
How
does it feel when your young daughter tells you she is
pregnant? Is a positive outcome possible? Charlene
Yoder joins Let’s Talk Adoption to share with us
her experience as a birth grandmother in an open adoption. |
Guest: Tammy Rowe, birth mother
What is it like to place your child? How might you feel afterward? Birth
mother, Tammy Rowe, shares with us her experience and how it affects her
life today. Learn what she looked for in an adoptive family and understand
the peace she has found through open adoption.
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Guest: Michelle Thooft, birth mother
Facing an unplanned pregnancy can be terrifying. What would you do? Where
would you turn? How would you feel? Author, Michelle Thooft share with us
her journey through adoption, and how the birth of her son, Sam, changed
her life and his adoptive parent's lives as well.
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Guest: Lee Ezell, birth mother, and author of The Missing Piece
Rape - Unplanned Pregnancy - Loss - Reunion
The author of The Missing Piece, Lee Ezelle, tells how, with a courage and determination beyond measure, she makes the decision to place her child, and discovers a deeper truth and meaning to life than she ever thought possible.
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Guest:
Sara Dorman, Ph.D. and Ruth Graham
McIntyre, authors
I'm pregnant? What am I going to do? Who can I tell? Meet Sara Dorman, Ph.D., and Ruth Graham McIntyre. Ruth is Billy Graham's daughter, and together with Sara Dorman, wrote I'm Pregnant, Now What? a book on crisis pregnancy that will bring you comfort and peace.
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Guest: Barbara Ramey,
Adoption Professional & Triad Participant
What is it like to place a child for adoption? What's it like to be an adoptive parent, and then reunite with the child you placed for adoption? Listen as, Barbara Ramey, shares with us her very personal experience.
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