Episode 130: International Adoption

Join the Conversation on Tuesday, April 15th at 6:00pm ET as we wrap up our three part series on adoption with a look at the process, the politics, and the parenting that goes along with adopting internationally. We will be joined by local adoptive parents Nick DiLorenzo and Tara Eschenbach, and hear a pre-recorded interview with Kathryn Joyce, author of The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and The New Gospel. Have a question for our hosts or guests? Please email us or post to our facebook page.

Tune into WSLR 96.5 LPFM or online at www.wslr.org Tuesday,, April 15th at 6:00pm ET. The program will also available later in the evening via podcast atmaternallyyoursradio.com.

For more information, please contact the hostesses of Maternally Yours atMaternallyYoursRadio@gmail.com, or on our facebook page atfacebook.com/maternallyyours.

Maternally Yours,
Laura, Ryan and Dana

Episode 117 (Epilogue): Adoption, Part Two (Private and Domestic)

This week, we brought you part two in our three part series on Adoption with a look at private, domestic adoption. This term generally refers to the adoption of U.S.-born infants through for-profit or non-profit adoption agencies and independent adoptions in which birth parents directly place children with adoptive parents, sometimes with the assistance of facilitators, doctors, clergy, or attorneys. Private, domestic adoptions account for a majority of US adoptions at about 38% (or about 18,000 per year), with foster care adoptions at 37% and international adoption 25%.

Until the mid 1970s, which coincided with the Roe vs. Wade abortion rights Supreme Court decision, agencies generally selected adoptive families for children without consulting birth parents. Current practice is much different. In many agency adoptions and in virtually all independent adoptions, birth parents are now actively involved in selecting the adoptive families for their children.

The process of adopting a newborn in the United States can go more swiftly than some may think. In a 2011 Adoptive Families survey, the majority of respondents were matched with a birth mother in less than three months, and 40% were matched less than one month before their child was born.

It has also become increasingly common for birth and adoptive families to have some form of direct contact after placement. This practice is called "open adoption," but the degree of openness can vary significantly. Birth and adoptive parents may meet before the adoption is finalized and have no further contact, or the families may maintain some level of ongoing contact throughout the child's life, such as exchanging photos or letters or having face-to-face meetings.

Our guests this evening were birth mother Alaire Fetters; former WSLR host Joe Hendricks, adopted in 1961; Tamara Knapp, an adoptive mother in open communication with her son’s birth mother; and adoption attorney Susan Stockham, and a representative from A Bond of Love, a local adoption agency.

  

Birth in the News:

http://www.today.com/moms/theyre-beautiful-twins-born-different-years-2013-turns-2014-2D11838151

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/chicago-girl-delivers-baby-sister/story?id=21398341

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/columnists/jacquielynn-floyd/20140103-texas-denies-grieving-family-the-right-to-say-goodbye.ece#&ui-state=dialog

Links we mentioned on the show:

http://www.abondoflove.net/

Episode 117: Adoption, Part Two (Private and Domestic)

Join the Conversation on Tuesday, January 7th at 6pm ET, as Laura brings you the second of our three part series on adoption with a look at adopting domestically through a private agency. We'll hear many sides of this story, from a birth mother, an adoptive mother, a grown adopted child and an agency representative.

Tune into WSLR 96.5 LPFM or online at www.wslr.org tonight, Tuesday, January 7th at 6:00pm ET. The program will also available later in the evening via podcast at maternallyyoursradio.com.

For more information, please contact the hostesses of Maternally Yours at MaternallyYoursRadio@gmail.com, or on our facebook page at facebook.com/maternallyyours.

Maternally Yours,
Cheryl, Carmela, Ryan and Laura

Episode 113: The Foster Care System

Join the Conversation Tuesday, December 3 at 6pm ET as Carmela and Laura follow up our Adoption through Foster Care show with a deeper look at the Foster Care system. We'll talk to adults who survived the system, including our own Carmela Pedicini, as well as Regina Calcaterra, author of Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island. We'll also be joined in the studio by Anthony Lerie, LHMC with the Florida Mentor Network, a local Therapeutic Foster Care agency.

Have a question for our hosts or expert guests? Please email us or post to our facebook page.

Tune into WSLR 96.5 LPFM or online at wslr.org Tuesday, December 3rd at 6:00pm ET. The program will also available later in the evening via podcast at maternallyyoursradio.com.

For more information or to submit questions for our hosts our our guest, please contact the hostesses of Maternally Yours at MaternallyYoursRadio@gmail.com, or on our facebook page at facebook.com/maternallyyours.

Maternally Yours,
Cheryl, Carmela, Ryan and Laura

Episode 109: Adoption, Part One--Through Foster Care

Join the Conversation tonight, Tuesday, November 5th at 6pm ET as Laura and Ryan begin a series on Adoption. In tonight's episode we'll explore adoption through the foster care system with Andrea Mertyris of the Safe Children Coalition, and Bob and Cindy Brophy, who have adopted four children from the foster care system. 

Have a question for our hosts? Please email us or post to our facebook page.

Tune into WSLR 96.5 LPFM or online at wslr.org tonight, Tuesday, November 5th at 6:00pm ET. The program will also available later in the evening via podcast at maternallyyoursradio.com.

For more information or to submit questions for our hosts our our guest, please contact the hostesses of Maternally Yours at MaternallyYoursRadio@gmail.com, or on our facebook page at facebook.com/maternallyyours.

Maternally Yours, 

Cheryl, Carmela, Ryan and Laura