Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Joshua Sparrow, child/adolescent psychiatrist, associate clinical professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of Strategy, Planning and Program Development at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center at Child...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Karen Howze, former Family Court Judge at D.C. Superior Court. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Janet Jaffe, a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Diego. She is the co-founder of the Center for Reproductive Psychology, and co-author of two books: Unsung Lullabies: Understanding and Coping with Inferti...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Alan Copperman, Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Vice-Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at Mount Sinai Medical Center, and Co-Medical D...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Mark Evans, medical director at Comprehensive Genetics and Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.  Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport interviewed Lee Varon, a clinical social worker, single adoptive mom of two, and author of two books for single people interested in adopting; Dr. Michelle Ottey, the laboratory director for Fairfax Cryobank; and Mikki Morrissette, founder of ChoiceMoms.org, single mom of two by donor sperm, and author of Choosing Single Motherhood. Creating a Fam...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Richard Barth, Dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and a prodigious adoption researcher and author. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatin...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Ann Cleary, Director of Holt International's California Branch Office. She received both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in children's mental health; and Judy Goldman, social worker with Vista Del Mar A...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Vandana Bhide, an internist and pediatrician at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Grace Centola, Tissue Bank Director, Manhattan Cryobank,  and Dr. Laurence Udoff, an infertility doctor and Medical Director Fairfax Egg Bank. For a d...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Brad Van Voorhis-Professor and Director of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and President of Society of Assited Reproductive Technolgy; and Dr. Art Castelbaum, Rep...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Debbie Rileym, CEO of The Center for Adoption Support and Education.  For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/.  Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews 2 adoption social workers on helping to prepare older kids for what it means to be adopted. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/.  Creating a Family has many free resources...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews a panel of adoptive moms who are raising children who were exposed in pregnancy to alcohol or drugs. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/.  Creating a Family has many free...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Glen Cohen, Harvard professor and author of Patients With Passports: Medical Tourism, Law & Ethics. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/.  Creating a Family has man...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Suzanne Seitz, a certified genetic counselor that has worked for in the fertility field for over 20 years. She has been with Fairfax Cryobank for more than 10 years and works with families who are selecting a sperm donor. F...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. John DeGarmo is a leading expert in foster care and parenting. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/.  Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Hugh Taylor, Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, at the Yale School of Medicine. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/.  Creating...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Robin Sizemore, Exec. Director of Hopscotch Adoptions, an international adoption agency with an active kinship adoption  program; Lorrin Pekarske an adoption social worker for the Catholic Charities supporting all types of...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Alan Martinez, a reproductive endocrinologist at  Reproductive Science Center of New Jersey. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/.  Creating a Family has many free reso...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Becky Wilmoth, an Adoption Tax Credit Specialist at Bills Tax Service, and Josh Kroll, Adoption Tax Credit Coordinator at the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC). For a discussion of this show, go to our bl...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Rhonda Roorda, author of In Their Voices: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption, and an adult transracial adoptee. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/.  Creating a Famil...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Marcy Maguire, a reproductive embryologist at Reproductive Medical Assiociates of New Jersey and professor at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafa...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews the authors of a new book: Adopting Older Children: A Practical Guide to Adopting and Parenting Kids Over Age 4. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/.  Creating a Family ha...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Heather Forbes, author of Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach for Helping Children With Severe Behaviors. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/. ...

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Tom Lamarr, author of Geezer Dad and Jillian Lauren, author of Everything You Ever Wanted. For a discussion of this show, go to our blog tomorrow http://creatingafamily.org/blog/.  Creating a Family has many free resources...