Host Margot Adler joins Ellen, Larry, Elizabeth and Martha Anderson at their home in Queens, NY to discuss Martha's adoption from Russia in 1993.
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Host Margot Adler speaks with Adam Pertman about trends in international adoption and the recent changes to China's adoption policy.
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Adoption agency representative Tom DiFilipo and adoption advocate Trish Maskew join host Margot Adler in a conversation about the potential effects of a new international treaty on adoption.
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Thomas DiFilipo
is the president and CEO of the Joint Council on International Children's Services. Previously, he served as vice president of the CASI Foundation for Children and as chief operations officer for the International Children's Alliance. He is the father of three children, with two joining the family through adoption.
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Trish Maskew
is the president of Ethica, an adoption advocacy group in Silver Spring, MD. In 2003-2004, she worked for the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference, in the Hague, Netherlands, where she assisted in writing an implementation manual for countries ratifying the Hague Adoption Convention. Trish is also the author of Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child. She is the parent of children who joined her family through birth, foster care, and adoption.
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Reporter Steve Mencher investigates how China’s new adoption policy will affect Americans waiting to adopt children from China and others who may want to adopt in the future.
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Host Margot Adler speaks with social worker Deborah Johnson about how families can explore the culture of an adopted child's birth country.
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Deborah Johnson
is a social worker and a director with the Ties Homeland Tour program at the Adoptive Family Travel Agency. The program allows adoptees and their families to explore their roots through the history and culture of their birth country. She is also a columnist for Adoptive Families magazine.
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Host Margot Adler interviews adoption professional Susan Soon-keum Cox about children with special needs who are up for adoption in other countries.
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Martin Wells shares his thoughts on what it's like to be a father of two adopted children, one with special needs.
Wells is currently the news director of NET Radio, a statewide public radio network based in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, and is one of 17 children. Wells and his wife Carol have two adopted Chinese children. Melanie is six and James is four.
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