Adoption, Fostering & Tea: The New Family Social Podcast

26 - Fostering a teenager as a single gay man

Dan started fostering four months ago and tells us what it's like to care for a teenager as a single carer.

 

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25 - How out do we have to be?

What does 'out' look like in different cultures?

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24 - Parenting traumatised siblings

Psychotherapist Nino talks about parenting his three traumatised children.

 

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23 - We’ve just adopted siblings

Stuart and Simon adopted a brother and sister.  They talk about how they made the decision to adopt siblings and what it's been like.

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22 - ”Our child is out there”

Marie talks about her second match falling through and the search for her next child.

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21 - Fostering, adoption, and splitting up

Hope fostered with her wife, adopted one of their children, then got divorced.

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20 - Adopting again after a long break

Sarah talks about adopting a daughter nine years after adopting her son.

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19 - The Great Behaviour Breakdown

How training and support can help to overcome attachment difficulties.

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18 - ”We weren’t allowed in the foster carer’s house”

Adopting a four year old at the height of Covid-19 lockdown.

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17 - Short-term and respite foster carer

Joy is in her late 60s and has been fostering for ten years.

 

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