a radio program
on adoption issues
hosted by Donna Montalbano
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In Rhode Island:
Adoptees can get their original birth records beginning July 2nd.
My guest: Christine LaChappelle Miller
Join the discussion.
Helping a child can change a life and child by child, change the world.
Foster children need our help year round. Cash donations are always welcome but donating your time is perhaps the greatest gift of all. Tutor a child, mentor a child; do something as simple and beautiful
as taking a foster child to a movie or a ball game.
Every state has a foster parents association you can contact.
And remember: there are hundreds of millions of children here and around the world living in pain and poverty. Here is a partial list of children's charities that would welcome your donation:
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Unicef USA
St. Jude Hospital
Ronald McDonald House
Make A Wish Foundation
World Vision
Operation Smile
Save The Children
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connected to adoption and would like
to be a guest on Adoption Discussions
we would like to hear from you.
Also, this website is currently compiling a list of adoption resources.
If you or your organization would like to be listed, email
donna@adoptiondiscussions.com.
Just about every American is somehow touched by adoption
personally or professionally.
Under the umbrella of modern adoption are triad members of course:
adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents;
along with the triad's extended family circles.
Foster parents and foster children (the kids in limbo) are front and center too.
Along with the forgotten band of children
whose numbers are growing every day: the children who are born
through surrogates or egg/sperm donorship.
Behind them stand the professionals and educators, the authors and movie-makers, the politicians, doctors, lawyers and social workers.
The adoption agents and the leaders of the huge variety of
national and international adoption organizations and support groups.
They all have something to say, and in order to understand
the evolution and revolution now taking place in the world of adoption,
we must listen.
Hear Adoption Discussions
anytime, anywhere
ON DEMAND at www.onworldwide.com
The initial broadcast can be heard
each Friday at 3 pm ET
via internet stream from
http://www.onworldwide.com/
or on the airwaves of
Below is a list of former guests of Adoption Discussions.
All programs are archived.
A download of any show can be emailed to you free of charge;
simply contact me at donna@adoptiondiscussions.com
September 30th, 2011
Senator Rhoda Perry of Rhode Island,
who was instrumental in getting the law passed
giving Rhode Island adoptees access to their original birth certificates
October 7th, 2011
Patrick McMahon author of
Becoming Patrick: A Memoir
October 14th, 2011
John Greene, executive director
of Rhode Island Adoptee Resource Group
October 21st, 2011
Susan Bennett, author of
Late discoveries, an adoptee's
search for truth
October 28th, 2011
Jacob Wheeler, author of
Between Light and Shadow:
A Guatemalan Girl's Journey through Adoption
November 4th, 2011
Sheila Ganz, documentarian
Unlocking the Heart of Adoption
November 11th, 2011
Erin Siegel, author of
Finding Fernanda:
2 mothers, 1 child
and a Cross Border Search for Truth
November 18th, 2011
Corinna Clendenen
Author of Double Time
december 2nd, 2011
Lisa Guillette
of the RI Foster Parents Association
December 9th, 2011
Jan Newsome,
program director of Senior Corps
December 16th, 2011
Dr. Peter Likins
author of A New American Family: A Love Story
December 30th, 2011
Donna Montalbano,
host of Adoption Discussions
talks about access to original birth records
for adoptees and the dark side of international adoption
January 6th, 2012
Sharon Leman, adoptee,
creator of Igniteability Coaching
January 13, 2012
Corie Skolnik,
author of Orfan
January 20th and 27th, 2012
Jeanette Yoffe
adoptee, performance artist
and family therapist for fostered
and adoptive children affected
by abuse, neglect and multiple placements
February 3rd and 10th, 2012
Ken Shallcross
PR/Marketing Director for PCPandora
makers of computer software
to keep children safe online
February 17, 2012
Josephine Ruggiero
sociology professor and author of
Eastern European Adoption
February 24, 2012
Michele Tvedt
National Manager for World Vision's
30 Hour Fast
March 2nd, 2012
Cpt. Peter Franklin of AWOL
Adoptees Without Liberty
March 9th, 2012
Erin Siegal
investigative journalist
March 16th, 2012
Victoria Hopewell
Grade A Baby Eggs
March 23, 2012
The history of the Orphan Train
March 30, 2012
Erik Smith
Birthfather's Rights
April 6, 2012
Ellen Kahn, Family Project Director
of Human Rights Campaign Foundation
April 13th, 2012
Scott Carney, author of
The Red Market:
On The Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves,
Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers
April 20th, 2012
Zara Phillips, singer, songwriter, documentarian
and author of Mother Me
May 4th, 2012
Part One with
birthfather Robert Manzanares
and attorney Wes Hutchins
May 11th, 2012
Part Two with
birthfather Robert Manzanares
and attorney Wes Hutchins
