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Angela: An Early Reunion Led to Belonging
Episode 6
Angela was born in Nebraska in 1979 and adopted at 3 days old. She grew up in a family that came with many complexities and issues, and she struggled…
1 year, 10 months ago
Magali: A Stranger in Two Countries
Episode 5
Magali was born in Sri Lanka in 1992 and adopted by French parents when she was 2 months old. She grew up in a small town in France, a mostly white a…
1 year, 10 months ago
Jeff: The Problem and the Solution
Episode 4
Jeff is an adoptee born in 1964 in Salt Lake City Utah. He is the middle of 4 children (an older sister and younger twins, a boy and a girl) who were…
1 year, 10 months ago
Julie: Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity
Episode 3
Julie Ryan McGue is an American writer, a domestic adoptee, and an identical twin. In her books, essays, and blogs, she explores the topics of findin…
1 year, 11 months ago
Stephen: A Story of Adoption and Destiny
Episode 2
Stephen Rowley, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist practicing on Bainbridge Island,
Washington. He is an adoptee and the father of an adopted son. Born in 19…
1 year, 11 months ago
Carolyn: Healing through Poetry
Episode 1
Carolyn Hill-Bjerke is an adoptee born in 1967, during the Baby Scoop Era.
She was born to 20-year-old students at the University of Connecticut.
Carol…
1 year, 11 months ago
Trishina: Digging through the Layers of International Adoption
Episode 13
Trishina was born in 1991 in Sevastopol, Ukraine, and was adopted at 18 months old. She was always curious about her biological family, searching on …
1 year, 11 months ago
Gretchen: Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
Episode 12
Season 7 Finale
Gretchen Sisson, PhD is a qualitative sociologist who studies abortion and adoption in the United States, based at Advancing New Stand…
2 years ago
Steve: An Adoptee Talks Birth Records
Episode 11
Steve Inskeep is an adoptee and adoptive parent born in 1968, the peak year for adoptions in America during the Baby Scoop Era.
He is a host of NPR'…
2 years ago
Christina: The Ups and Downs of Reunion
Episode 10
Christina Thanstrom is a baby Scoop-era adoptee born in Los Angeles in 1966. A loving couple adopted her in 1967 through LA County and she had a most…
2 years ago