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  • Adoption - Systems, Stories, and Support - Beyond the Finalization: Post-Adoption Support That Keeps Families Together

    Adoption - Systems, Stories, and Support - Beyond the Finalization: Post-Adoption Support That Keeps Families Together
    Apr 25 2026
    Maya Chen explores post-adoption support systems, revealing how ongoing services—crisis intervention, peer networks, therapy, and subsidies—determine whether adoptive families thrive. Through stories from North Devon to New Jersey, she examines support gaps and argues that asking for help is grace, covering adoption from foster care, private, and international paths.

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    28 min
  • Adoption - Systems, Stories, and Support - From Foster Care to Forever Family

    Adoption - Systems, Stories, and Support - From Foster Care to Forever Family
    Apr 18 2026
    Maya Chen explores foster-to-adopt adoption, breaking down the journey from paperwork to permanence. Discover real family stories navigating the system, learn etiquette for supporting adoptive parents, and understand vital post-adoption resources like subsidies and support groups.

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    25 min
  • Adoption - Systems, Stories, and Support - Voices From Every Side of the Journey

    Adoption - Systems, Stories, and Support - Voices From Every Side of the Journey
    Apr 15 2026
    Host Maya Chen explores why older teens in foster care struggle to find adoptive families while society romanticizes infant adoption. Drawing on research from AdoptUSKids and trauma specialists, she examines the 20,000 youth aging out annually, advocating for post-adoption support and reframing adoption as partnership.

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    25 min
  • Demystifying Adoption - Facts Versus Fiction on Building Families

    Demystifying Adoption - Facts Versus Fiction on Building Families
    Feb 22 2024
    This episode explores the ins and outs of adoption, equipping readers with essential information on the different types available, statistics and trends shaping the landscape, the rigorous processes involved, as well as myth-busting facts versus persisting fictions. Moving beyond stereotypes, it aims to bring balanced understanding, compassion and acceptance around this intricately complex way of building families. For anyone considering adoption, touched by adoption, or simply seeking an insightful primer on the realities, this guide promises an enlightening analysis of foster care, domestic infant and international adoption pathways.

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    15 min