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Cary: Coming to Terms with the Complexities of Adoption
Episode 8
Cary is a baby scoop-era adoptee who was born in a Florence Crittenton Home in Atlantic City NJ in 1964. Her first mother was 19 years old and was fo…
2 years ago
Ellen: An Unexpected DNA Test Was Life-Changing
Episode 7
Ellen is a baby scoop-era New York State adoptee. She was adopted by a loving Greek American couple through a closed private adoption and raised in t…
2 years, 1 month ago
Simone: A Lifelong Search for Coherence
Episode 6
Simone Pajo was born in Auckland New Zealand in 1968, the baby scoop era. She was the middle child between two bio children and was adopted after th…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ryan: A Foundling Looks for Answers
Episode 5
Ryan Anderson is a foundling and a transnational, transracial, and late discovery adoptee (LDA). Found on the street in El Jadida, Morocco he was ado…
2 years, 1 month ago
Jessica: For this Adoptee, Unsealed Records Reveal Answers Close to Home
Episode 4
Jessica is a 1970 baby scoop-era adoptee, who started discovering her roots at age 50. After more than 80 years of closed records in NYS, she was abl…
2 years, 1 month ago
Valerie: Mystic Masquerade, An Adoptee's Search for Truth
Episode 3
Valerie Naiman is an adoptee, singer, story-songwriter, eco-village founder, ontologist, and author. Her #1 bestseller book, Mystic Masquerade, an Ad…
2 years, 1 month ago
Chris: Unraveling the Mystery of Family History
Episode 2
Chris Valdheims is a domestic adoptee born in the late 1970s and adopted in the early 1980s after spending years of his early childhood in foster car…
2 years, 2 months ago
Margaret Jane: For this Adoptee, the Questions Came Early
Episode 1
After being an only child all her life, Margaret Jane’s adoptive parents adopted four more children through the foster care system. This experience o…
2 years, 2 months ago
Susan: I Would Meet You Anywhere
Episode 14
Susan Ito is the author of the memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, published by the Ohio State University Press in November 2023. She co-edited the li…
2 years, 2 months ago
Stacie: For This Adoptee, the Longing Tugged at her Heart
Episode 13
Stacie is a Canadian born and an adoptee to same race and religion parents in 1991-1992. She is part of a mixed family of adopted and “home-made” sib…
2 years, 2 months ago