Conversations About Adoption

Fellow adoptee Lisa Elaine Scott reached out to come back to the podcast to give us all an update on her work on the film "All You Have is Love: Demand, Deception, and the Infant Adoption Industry". www.allyouhaveislove.com On June 14th there will be a fundraising event Lisa is hosting through Eventbrite where she will be showing some previously unseen footage, and have general discussio...

Katie is a mother of loss to adoption. When she found out she was pregnant she was doing ok, and a freak accident changed everything in an instant for her and her child. Listen as we discuss her story, her projects, and get to know each other. The Family Preservation Project TFPP on Facebook TFPP on Instagram TFPP on TikTok Saving Our Sisters Adoption All You Have is Love film project

**Trigger warning** We do talk about some triggering subjects such as sexual assault and child abuse, please be aware of that in case these subjects will trigger you. I had a delightful conversation with Brian an adoptee I met at the Untangling Our Roots Summit in Kentucky last year. He was the emcee at the 2024 summit which just happened in Denver last weekend! He is an actor and he writes plays....

Lori is a Jewish first mother who relinquished in the 1990s. Lori is also a speaker and the author of her book 'From Mistakes to Miracles: A Jewish birth mother's story of Redemption, Hope and Healing' You can find links to her social media, books, and articles on her website: https://loriprashkerthomas.com If you are interested in being a guest on the Conversations About Adoption podc...

Cynthia is a mental health clinician with 10 years of experience and a fellow adoptee. We had a great time talking despite a couple interruptions. Our stories are kind of parallel as we are both Gen X but raised by silent generation parents. Parents that teach you to stuff your emotions away, and definitely do not display the negative ones. I hope you enjoy this conversation! If you want to be on...

Please be advised with this episode there is a trigger warning. Alicia talks about domestic violence, rape, child abuse, infant loss, and more. If you are sensitive to these topics, please be advised and practice self-care when listening. She does jump right into it. Alicia was already the mother to one son and landed in a horribly abusive relationship. She lost one baby, and a short time later wa...

Welcome to the 40th episode!!! It's heard to believe! In this episode I speak with Kristal who is also an adoptee. She lives in Canada with her husband and their three children. Her adoptive parents had sons and always wanted a little girl, and when Kristal was born she filled that space in their family. She has 2 adoptive brothers who are much older than her, she said it was almost like growi...

Curt is a fellow baby scoop adoptee. We had a great time talking, and I enjoyed hearing his story. Here is a little bit about Curt in his own words. Quick bio    I was a very spirited youth.  I started a family at a very young age. I spent the majority of my life in Virginia. I have two daughters and two granddaughters. Currently I live in Las Vegas and have been here for almost nine years. I spen...

Jenny Trudeau is a mother of loss to adoption, having lost her child through standard coercive industry practices with an agency that was later closed for fraudulent adoptions. Jenny is a 23 year veteran to adoption loss and has studied the industry and its effects on mothers and children for 8 years. Jenny's passion for family preservation comes from her loss, the awareness of the loss of so...

Welcome to 2024 and the beginning of season 4! Thank you for your patience while I took a break over the holidays. Hopefully in the coming weeks I will put up episodes with: a first mom starting another family preservation organization, an indigenous adoptee who made a film that should be released this year, a first mom from the UK, and many more. In this episode I had a conversation with Brad. He...

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Liliana is a very valuable voice in indigenous and adoption communities as she has experienced multiple facets of the child-welfare system in the United States. She was adopted from Ecuador to the America into a white adoptive family as a toddler. Her adoptive father was abusive, and she ended up in foster care... You will have to listen to see how the rest of her story pans out. In keeping with t...

It's NAAM, which means I ranted a little in the intro to this episode... I did it in one take, so please be gentle. :) This episode features Jenny a domestic infant adoptee born in the USA who immigrated to Germany to live with her husband, and raise their family. She is the eldest of 4 adopted kids. (All from different families.) She recently went viral when she shared a beautiful video of me...

In the last episode I spoke with Rich about his story, and his advocacy work, in this episode we will talk about his creative endeavor, his musical "For the Record(s)" Rich introduced everyone at the summit to this project, and when he played testify, it blew us away. In this episode we listen to and talk about the songs, and he fills in some context about the songs. And when I say my ep...

In this conversation I spoke with Rich. He is a fellow baby-scoop adoptee and very involved in advocating for better laws around access to adoption records for adoptees among other things. In this episode we will talk a little about his history, and a lot about adoption in general, as well as talk about his work in advocacy. Rich serves as president of the Coalition for Truth and Transparency in A...

Originally published 12/3/2021 **reposted because I realized I had accidentally uploaded the raw podcast with no intro.** This is a great conversation I had with a fellow baby scoop era adoptee Ruth who I met through TikTok and we had a lot to talk about. This was recorded through zoom and is not edited at all.  You can find the video version of this conversation on YouTube. There maybe adult lang...

This is the continuation of of the conversation with adoptees about why they chose to cut or extremely limit contact with their adoptive parents. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/convosaboutadoption

This conversation was inspired by some conversations happening on TikTok involving a younger adoptive mom who was saying a lot of harmful things to adult adoptees including, that she owns her child. **cringe** Adult adoptees were saying they imagine she has the type of attitude that causes adoptees to cut ties with the parent. I made posts on Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok asking for adoptees who w...

Emma Stevens is a U.S. domestic adoptee from birth and has survived layers of trauma that have put her on multiple journeys. She developed the inner strength and courage to surmount the many struggles she faced. Her traumas were born from first being relinquished and then becoming an adoptee who struggled with being forced to wear an impossible mask of playing the part of the “good adopted child.”...

Natalie is an adoptee who was born in Colombia and adopted out to Norway when she was 9 months old. She just went through reunion, and will disclose some interesting details in our conversation. (I don't want to spill the beans.) Here is the link to her GoFundMe we talked about in the episode in case anyone wants to help her get to meet her family. https://gofund.me/84c55282 .  She found her f...

Valerie is an adoptee with a LOT of life experience, and I just don't mean age, which is a bit of a mystery. She's had a lot of adventures and shares some of them in our conversation! We talked about SO much! There was laughter and tears (On my end) and some silliness in this conversation. She wrote a book called Mystic Masquerade: An adoptee's search for truth, which should be out som...

Barbara Raymond is the author of one of the most important books (In my opinion) because it kept Georgia Tann from fading into history. If Barbara hadn't stumbled across Georgia's story while working on an article she thought was going to be about an adoption reunion in the 1990s, Georgia could very well have faded into obscurity. Thanks to her diligence and excellent investigative skills,...

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Lisa Elaine Scott is a writer and filmmaker. She is a Baby Scoop Era California adoptee and the director of the upcoming film “All You Have Is Love: Demand, Deception and the Infant Adoption Industry. If you can, please support this incredibly important project with a donation. Seed & Spark Crowdfunding Campaign https://seedandspark.com/fund/allyouhaveislove#story If you can't donate, plea...