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Chris: Home at Last: A Navajo Adoptee Finds His Place
Episode 6
Chris Stearns is Navajo and was adopted in the mid-1960s before the Indian Child Welfare Act existed. His mom was part of the federal Indian Relocati…
3 years, 2 months ago
Nancy: For this Adoptee, the Story Didn't Add Up
Episode 5
Nancy Davis was born in Florida in 1949 and adopted by a family from New York. The adoption was private and no documents were available to investigat…
3 years, 2 months ago
David E: Phantom Parents: An Adoptee Connects the Dots
Episode 4
An unofficial adoption. David Enker was born in Amsterdam in 1970, following the Summer of Love of 1969. Relinquished a few months after birth to ano…
3 years, 2 months ago
Annie O: Where Is My Mum?
Episode 3
I’m Annie O. O stands for my last name. O is round. It’s a hole I still live in, that I’m not allowed to escape. Why the fuck is that how it has to b…
3 years, 3 months ago
Mariela: Home Sweet Casa: A Colombian Adoptee Shares Her Story
Episode 2
Mariela Andersen is the author of "Home Sweet Casa: A Journey to The Universal Heart". Her book is the story of her reunion with her biological famil…
3 years, 3 months ago
Paige: The Family She Never Knew Lived Only Blocks Away
Paige Strickland is an Ohio “Baby-Scoop Era” adoptee, teacher, mom of two and grandmother of three. She is the author of two memoir books, Akin To Th…
3 years, 3 months ago
Relinquished: An Adoptee Roundtable Discussion About the Complexities of Navigating Those Early Wounds
Sarah and Louise join their season three authors, A.M. Homes, Damon Davis, and Megan Culhane Galbraith in an intimate roundtable discussion about liv…
3 years, 3 months ago
Rudy: Fighting for Adoptee Rights
Episode 27
Rudy Owens is a Detroit native, born in the mid-1960s at Crittenton General Hospital of Detroit, one of the country’s largest maternity hospitals ded…
3 years, 4 months ago
Kate: An International Adoptee Struggles to Bond
Episode 26
Kate Betancourt was born in 1978 in Bogotá Colombia. She spent three months in the hospital after her Mother left, after her birth. Kate was transfer…
3 years, 4 months ago
Jeffrey: Untangling the Layers of a Corrupt Adoption
Episode 25
Jeffrey Leventhal was born In 1970 in Miami, FL, and didn’t learn until age 12 that he was adopted. He was told that he had a twin, which was just on…
3 years, 4 months ago