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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…
2 years, 3 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 …
2 years, 3 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago
Mark: An Adoptee Holds the Church Accountable
Episode 9
Mark Diebel has been married for almost 46 years and has two sons and two grandchildren. He has been serving as an Episcopal priest in parish ministr…
2 years, 4 months ago
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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 5 months ago