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.In this podcast:JeenaEmilie HögbergKim WarnesjöMy prepared notesThese 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?