AWAS 039: The Changing Face of Foster Care

Add Water and Stir: Women of Color | Adoption | Foster Care | Parenting

The mission of our podcast is to give voice and visibility to families like ours who are typically not a part of the adoption conversation. So we are pretty geeked that, today we have two foster parents that are affiliated with the Foundling, a New York based charity that empowers thousands of children and families to live independent, stable and fulfilling lives. Our guests today are Stephanie Lopez and Daryn Eato, welcome to the Add Water and Stir Podcast

May is National Foster Care Month in the US. More than 400,000 children in the United States are in foster care; usually with the goal of being reunited with their birth families or being adopted. The families who provide safe and healing homes for foster children are a special bunch and on this episode of Add Water and Stir, ABM and Mimi take some time to explore one example of an NGO that provides support for foster and birth families.

On the second segment, reveal their mutual ambivalence about Mother’s Day. The holiday triggers memories of personal loss, their children's’ losses and those of their birth mothers. Although they are grateful for the opportunity to be mothers, their respective journeys to motherhood shape the way they view the holiday devoted to this role.

In the Wind Down, Mimi and ABM reminisce about when they were little girls. Before you know it they are in a time machine back to when they were cheering and wearing

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