Creating A Family: Talk About Infertility, Adoption & Foster Care

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Stella Gilgur-Cook, LCSW, adoption therapist, and former director of The Modern Family Center at Spence-Chapin Services; and Pat Irwin Johnson, author of Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/ai90U Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/transitioning-fertility-treatment-adoption/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/transitioning-fertility-treatment-adoption/ Support the showPlease 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

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Kim Phagan-Hansel, editor of Fostering Families Today magazine and The Foster Parenting Toolbox; and Madeleine Krebs, clinical coordinator at Center for Adoption Support and Education with over 35 years of experience. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/c_DQc Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/foster-care-adoption-transitioning-foster-adoption/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/foster-care-adoption-transitioning-foster-adoption/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport interviewed renowned researcher Dr. Susan Golombok, Director of the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, and author of Modern Families: Parents and Children in New Family Forms; and Dr. Martha Rueter, Associate Professor of Family Social Science at University of Minnesota. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at A-Z Infertility Resource Guide (https://creatingafamily.org/infertility/resources/)  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/Q_5zR Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/donor-spermegg-surrogacy-harmful-kids/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/donor-spermegg-surrogacy-harmful-kids/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit wit

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport interviewed Sheridan Voysey, author of Resurrection Year: Turning Broken Dreams Into New Beginnings, a book about his journey to deciding to live childfree after a 10 year struggle with infertility; and Jen Gamper, an infertility therapist with RMA New Jersey. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at out A-Z Infertility Resource Guide (https://creatingafamily.org/infertility/resources/).  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/0d49o Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/deciding-live-child-free-infertility/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/deciding-live-child-free-infertility/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthe

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Richard Hill, genealogist and author of Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA; Bethany Waterbury, geneologist with Next of Kin Research; and CeCe Moore, a genealogist, speaker, and teacher of genetic genealogy courses. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/Gue23 Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/genetic-testing-genealogy-adoptees/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/genetic-testing-genealogy-adoptees/ Support the showPlease 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

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Brooke Randolph, LMHC, is a child and family therapist and author of The Bully Book: A Workbook for Kids Coping with Bullies; and Debora Gish, LCSW, with Adoption Connection with 20 experience working with kids and families. Creating a Family has many free resources school issues on Adoption A-Z Resource Guide (https://creatingafamily.org/adoption/resources/ ). Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/aKY47 Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/helping-kids-cope-bullies-school/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/helping-kids-cope-bullies-school/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-p

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Jason M. Franasiak, Associate Chair, Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility; and Dr. Erin Wolff, Assistant Clinical Investigator in NICHD and NHLBI.   Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at https://creatingafamily.org/infertility/resources/. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/the-microbiome-and-fertility/ Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/the-microbiome-and-fertility/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/the-microbiome-and-fertility/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national no

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews a panel of women who became moms over the age of 40 and 45 talking about how they made the decision, how they built their family, and what it is like to be an older mom.  Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/f4ymC Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/making-decision-become-older-mom/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/making-decision-become-older-mom/ Support the showPlease 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 p

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Louise Brinton, Senior Scientific Advisor for the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics of the National Cancer Institute (NCI).  During her 40 year career with the NCI, she has focused her research on a wide variety of exposures related to cancer risks among women, including reproductive factors and fertility drugs; Humberto “Bert” Scoccia, MD, Professor and Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago; and Alice Crisci, breast cancer survivor, activist and author. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/b8ej6 Facebo

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Stephanie Caballero and Catherine Tucker, both reproductive law attorneys covering sperm donation, egg donation, surrogacy, and embryo donation. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/.  Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/8svYh Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/making-sure-third-party-reproduction-legal/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/making-sure-third-party-reproduction-legal/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Melissa Basham, mom to 4 boys adopted from foster care; Abigail Betancourt, mom to 2 kids adopted from foster care; Jan Egozi, mom to one child adopted internationally; and Shelley McMullen, mom to 1 child adopted internationally. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a review on iTunes.Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/Zx4kQ Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/panel-parents-adopting-older-kidssurviving-1st-year/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/panel-parents-adopting-older-kidssurviving-1st-year/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Paul Brezina, a board certified fertility expert Fertility Associates of Memphis. Dr. Maria Mercedes Gondra, an infertility specialist, and Medical director at Gondra Center for Reproductive care and Advanced Gynecology and on site medical director at The World Egg Bank in Phoenix Arizona. Brigitte Adams, Founder of Eggsurance, an organization whose mission is to create a community for women considering freezing their eggs. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/d1fV0 Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/radio-show/egg-freezing-should-you-when-how/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/radio-s

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. David Brodzinsky, Psychology Professor and Director of Foster Care Counseling Project at Rutgers University, and author of the seminal book "Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self". Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to tweet: http://ctt.ec/dMyp6 Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/mental-health-issues-adopted-kids/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/mental-health-issues-adopted-kids/ Support the showPlease 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

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Chuck Johnson, President and CEO of National Council For Adoption, and their Director of Public Policy & Education, Megan Lestino.  Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a review on iTunes.Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/50013 Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/adoption-legislation-advocacy/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/adoption-legislation-advocacy/ Support the showPlease 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 t

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Joshua Sparrow, child/adolescent psychiatrist, associate clinical professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of Strategy, Planning and Program Development at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center at Children’s Hospital Boston, and syndicated columnist for the NYTimes. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/.  Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet:http://ctt.ec/5vMj7 Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/adopting-child-sexually-abused/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/adopting-child-sexually-abused/ Su

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Karen Howze, former Family Court Judge at D.C. Superior Court. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/vd9p2 Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/view-foster-care-family-court-judge/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/view-foster-care-family-court-judge/   Support the showPlease 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 an

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Janet Jaffe, a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Diego. She is the co-founder of the Center for Reproductive Psychology, and co-author of two books: Unsung Lullabies: Understanding and Coping with Infertilityand Reproductive Trauma: Psychotherapy with Infertility and Pregnancy Loss Clients. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/.  Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/c4bKM Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/understanding-coping-emotions-infertility/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-ca

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Alan Copperman, Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Vice-Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at Mount Sinai Medical Center, and Co-Medical Director of Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/XZlzO Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/lifestyle-choices-increase-odds-getting-pregnant-ivf/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/lifestyle-choices-increase-odds-getting-pregnant-ivf/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review.

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Mark Evans, medical director at Comprehensive Genetics and Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.  Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/mY1lz Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/preimplantation-prenatal-genetic-testing-can-cant-tell-us/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/preimplantation-prenatal-genetic-testing-can-cant-tell-us/ Support the showPlease 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 adopt

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport interviewed Lee Varon, a clinical social worker, single adoptive mom of two, and author of two books for single people interested in adopting; Dr. Michelle Ottey, the laboratory director for Fairfax Cryobank; and Mikki Morrissette, founder of ChoiceMoms.org, single mom of two by donor sperm, and author of Choosing Single Motherhood. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/ffd7z Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/baby-single-mom-things-consider/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/baby-single-mom-things-consider/ Support the showPlease 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