Location:
United States
Description:
From babyhood to school age, through the teenage years and ultimately adulthood, Adoption: The Long View explores all aspects of the adoption journey with a variety of articulate and thought-provoking guests.
Language:
English
Episodes
504: 22 Years of Lessons Learned from Two Moms in One Open Adoption
5/3/2024
The moment you become a parent, time seems to stop and you can’t see beyond the sweet baby or toddler you have before you, looking up at you with those big eyes that say you are everything. Those days of full dependence on you feel like they may go on fore...
Duration:00:48:15
503: A Deeper Look into Adoption and the Bible
4/5/2024
My new book Adoption Unfiltered, has three chapters in it devoted to religion and adoption, with my co-authors and I each researching and covering a chapter. Sara Easterly, an adoptee and a Christian, wrote about religion’s pain points for adoptees. Kelsey...
Duration:00:43:11
502: Exploring the Full Range of Adoptee Emotions
3/1/2024
Early in my adoptive parenting days, when my kids were first becoming able to talk about their adoptedness and continuing through their adolescence, I was on alert for signs that adoption had hurt them. I’d been listening to adult adoptees and I knew that...
Duration:00:37:48
501: What We Get Wrong About Same-Race Adoption
2/2/2024
Welcome to Season 5 of Adoption: The Long View! This month's guest is someone I made a bad first impression on (in my own head, anyway) because of an assumption I made about her that turned out to be wrong. Adoptee and content creator Jennifer Dyan Ghost...
Duration:00:41:57
410: Best Advice of Adoption Experts from Season 4 + Something EXTRA
12/1/2023
It’s December of 2023, which means that my new book, Adoption Unfiltered, written with Sara Easterly, an adoptee, and Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, a birth parent, is finally available! The first part of this episode is our traditional season-closing digest...
Duration:00:50:51
409: Unfiltering Adoption: What's Been Filtered From Us Hurts Us
11/3/2023
This is a really special episode for me because not only am I the host, as I always am, I am also a guest. I’m so excited to announce on Adoption: The Long View, that within a month, a book I, along with my two guests, have spent the last 3 years envisio...
Duration:00:42:21
408: The Dance of Adoptive Parenting: When to Lead & When to Follow
10/6/2023
One of the distinctions we continually make here on Adoption: The Long View is the difference between "open adoption" and "openness in adoption." The former typically means having some sort of information about or contact with birth family, but the latte...
Duration:00:41:11
407: What My Adoptive Parents Did - and Didn't - Do Well
9/1/2023
So many parents end up wishing they'd had a time machine to go back and know earlier what we didn’t know then about parenting, which is the whole premise of this podcast – to take the long view. With adoptive parenting, that wish can be even stronger, be...
Duration:00:54:34
406: Talking About Race with Adoptees
8/4/2023
Parenting a child of a race different from yours adds a whole new element to adoptive parenting. While this episode does focus on raising an interracial adoptee (also called a transracial adoptee), becoming more comfortable with talking about race is a w...
Duration:00:41:52
405: How to Be a Therapeutic Adoptive Parent
6/2/2023
If you’ve been listening here long, you know that to believe that adoptive parenting is no different from regular old parenting will likely end up with you feeling blindsided some day, without tools and without strategies. This is because all adoptions...
Duration:00:48:56
404: Guilt, Shame, and Boundaries in Adoption
5/5/2023
One thing we know is that adoption comes out of a broken attachment, that the baby or child we parent has already lost something primal, that biological connection to the first mother, as well as the genetic connection to her and to the baby’s first fa...
Duration:00:52:11
403: Why an Adoptee's Truth Matters More than a Parent's Comfort
4/7/2023
Why are truth and trust so important in adoptive families? In all families, really? Isn’t it OK sometimes to keep some things under wraps, for someone’s own good? There's a philosophical paradox called sorites based on the idea that no grain of sand i...
Duration:00:53:43
402: YES to Continuing Education for Adoptive Parenting & NO to Adoption Echo Chambers
3/3/2023
Adoptive parenting has this in common with regular old parenting: just when you start to feel like you’ve mastered a stage, like babyhood, toddlerhood, tweenhood, or beyond, your child keeps growing and enters a new stage. And you’re back at square one...
Duration:00:28:12
401: An Adoptee, Birth Mom, & Adoption Professional All in One
2/3/2023
There are very few people who have the multi-perspectives and lived experience in adoption that Rebecca Ricardo has. Rebecca joined her family through adoption – this means she is an adoptee. As a young teen she placed her son for adoption, embarking o...
Duration:01:04:47
310: The Best Advice for Adoptive Parents from Season 3
12/2/2022
As we wrap up 2022, we also wrap up Season 3. This year, we have heard from seven adoptees, one birth parent, four adoptive parents, two people who got OFF the adoption roller coaster, and two people in differing roles within their interracial families. We...
Duration:00:40:23
309: How to Talk Open Adoption with Young Children
11/4/2022
It’s National Adoption Awareness Month, and we can think of no better way to honor it than to listen to an adoptee, especially one who is also raising an adoptee. Our guest this month was adopted and grew up in the closed adoption era and is now an advoca...
Duration:00:39:36
308: The Challenges of Transracial Adoptive Parenting
9/30/2022
Parenting is a Big Deal. But adoptive parenting? Well, that brings a whole other layer to plain old parenting. Add in a transracial element? Wrap another layer around an already wrapped Big Deal. Separation from original parents, no matter how necessary or...
Duration:00:36:14
Introducing Adoption: The Long View
9/8/2022
Adoption: The Long View is a truly informative podcast for adoptive parents, helping them to navigate the ever-changing, post-adoption world. If you thought adoption was something that ended when a child was placed with your family, think again. But don't...
Duration:00:00:53
307: Adoption in Interracial & LGBTQ+ Families: An Interview with Interracial Adoptee Tony Hynes
9/2/2022
Tony Hynes is an interracial adoptee whose adoption case reached the US Supreme Court in the 1990s. While his case was knocked down to a lower court, Tony Hynes’ adoption ended up in a rare arrangement – joint custody between his Black birth grandmother an...
Duration:00:57:42
306: What if Adopting Doesn't Work Out?: Exploring The Uncharted Exit Ramp of Adoption
7/29/2022
It's estimated that there are between 40 and 100 families waiting for every available infant placement. The odds are not in everyone’s favor, and at least some of the people hoping to adopt a newborn will just not be able to. That’s a hard truth. What happ...
Duration:00:47:08