November has arrived and time once more to recognize National Adoption Awareness Month. This year's theme, "Honoring Youth; Strengthening Pathways for Lasting Bonds", highlights the importance of helping youth identify and nurture support systems and social connections that help young people as they transition to adulthood and through life.

Join hosts Kim Noeth (a birth mother), Sharon Butler-Obazee (an adoptee) and Sally Ankerfelt (an adoptive parent) as they discuss the lasting and often negative impact of the child welfare system with Dr. Patrice Martin, strategic leader and adoptee rights activist. As always, hosts and their special guest, offer up a tri-spective view of adoption and its lasting impact on each triad member.

Special guest, adoptee, adoptee activist, and author, Anne Heffron, joins co-hosts and adoption coaches, Kim Noeth (a birth mother), Sharon Butler-Obazee (an adoptee) and Sally Ankerfelt (an adoptive parent) for an engaging discussion of the "masks" we might be wearing as members of the adoption triad and within our adoptive families. How do the masks we don protect our feelings and the feelings of those around us? If we were brave enough to let the masks down, what would we gain, how would we feel, and how would we be different? Are we even brave enough to share what is behind the mask? Drawing on a tri-spective point of view and lived experience, explore the "unmasking."

Join co-hosts and adoption coaches, Kim Noeth (a birth mother), Sharon Butler-Obazee (an adoptee) and Sally Ankerfelt (an adoptive parent) for an important back-to-school discussion of adoption in the classroom. Once again, they bring to the conversatin their unique experience and world view as an adoption triad member to inform the conversation. Today, they explore with 6th grade teacher, Michelle Soggs, how she creates a learning environment that is sensitive to adoptive families, adoptees, and birth families.

Join co-hosts and adoption coaches, Kim Noeth (a birth mother), Sharon Butler-Obazee (an adoptee) and Sally Ankerfelt (an adoptive parent) for another lively and upbeat discussion with Brian, an adoptive father of two, now-adult children. Learn how he navigated an open adoption with not one but two different bio families!

Using their Tri-spective point of view, Kim, Sharon, and Sally explore with Brian how others can create an experience that works for their families.

Join co-hosts and adoption coaches, Kim Noeth (a birth mother), Sharon Butler-Obazee (an adoptee) and Sally Ankerfelt (an adoptive parent) for another lively discussion: the adoptive family on vacation. Using their tri-spective point of view, they explore how to create an experience that works for adoptive families, adoptees, and birth families.

Join co-hosts and adoption coaches, Kim Noeth (a birth mother), Sharon Butler-Obazee (an adoptee,) and Sally Ankerfelt (an adoptive parent) for another lively discussion about Father's Day. Being a dad in adoption can be complicated. Tune in to hear three dads -- an adoptee, birth dad, and adoptive father -- get real about the challenges and the joys of being a father in adoption.

Welcome to Adoption Matters, a podcast with real people sharing real stories and getting real about adoption from all three perspectives of the adoption triad. As we just celebrated Mother's Day, we hope you embraced and recognized your value as a mother, whether you placed or parented a child.

Join co-hosts and adoption coaches, Kim Noeth (birth mother), Sharon Butler-Obazee (adoptee) & Sally Ankerfelt (adoptive parent) as they explore some of the complexities surrounding mothers and mothering in connection to adoption. Listen to this lively conversation and how this holiday -- Mother's Day or Birth Mother's Day, awakens different responses and insights for each of the coaches ... and moms.

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ADOPTION MATTERS' hosts a compilation of triad voices reflecting on mothers. Listen to some special memories, sweet yet at times painful thoughts about being a mother, and poignant tributes to moms.

Several birth mothers, adoptees, and an adoptive dad share their heartfelt thoughts on Mother's Day. It can be a complicated topic. For example, many people have not heard about Birth Mother's Day, celebrated on the Saturday before Mother's Day. People's feelings change over time as they continue to understand the complex ramifications of adoption and how it both creates and separates families.

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