Adoption - Emilie & Kim

This time we are talking about a kind of a heavy topic, adoption and how it affects the children and everyone around.

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In this podcast:

• Jeena
• Emilie Högberg
• Kim Warnesjö

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

*** Intro
**** Where are you from? Where do you live now?
**** How old were you when you got adopted/foster family?
**** Your occupation?
*** Adoption
**** Difference between adoption and a foster family?
**** Why?
***** Who adopts?
****** Family members?
******* New partner
****** Strangers
****** From a different country
**** How?
***** Open vs. closed adoption
****** Child knows who biological parents are
****** Child doesn't know
***** Foster care adoption
****** Many children
***** Embryo adoption
***** Money for children
***** Celebreties
**** Fraud
***** Forced adoption during war, 200k polish children to german
adoptive parents
*** Effects on adoptees
**** Identity crisis
***** lack of medical history
***** broken thread of family continuity
**** Parent-infant system
***** Nature ensures some initial flexibility with respect to the
adults who take on the parental role
*** Effects on the biological parents
**** Do they miss their kids
**** Regret
*** Adoptive parents
**** Parenting
**** Relationship
**** No accidental kids
*** Siblings
**** How is the bond during childhood?
**** How is it in your adult life?
*** Reunion with biological parents?
**** What would you ask?