Creating A Family: Talk About Infertility, Adoption & Foster Care

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Do you worry that your decision to foster or adopt will hurt the kids you are already raising? Check out this podcast with Dr. Jana Hunsley, an Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Dallas, trauma therapist, TBRI® Practitioner, and founder of Project 1025. In this episode, we cover:FosteringWhat are some of the common impacts of fostering on children already in the family? Both potentially negative and positive.What does your research show on how significant and how often children already in the home are negatively impacted by fostering?Should you Include kids in the decision to foster? If so, how does that look at different ages?For children already in the home, is there a better age to start fostering because of their ability to understand what the family is doing?Is it harder to introduce a foster child when there is only one existing child in the home. Do only children have a harder time adjusting?How much informa