Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care
Kids & Family
How do some kids survive a life of poverty, homelessness, abuse, and foster and eventually thrive? We talk with David Ambroz is a national poverty and child welfare expert and advocate and the author of the memoir, A Place Called Home. He was recognized by President Obama as an American Champion of Change. Currently serving as the Head of Community Engagement (West) for Amazon, Ambroz previously led Corporate Social Responsibility for Walt Disney Television, and has served as president of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission as well as a California Child Welfare Council member. After growing up homeless and then in foster care, he graduated from Vassar College and later earned his J.D. from UCLA School of Law. He is a foster dad and lives in Los Angeles, CA.
In this episode, we cover:
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Egg Freezing-Should You? When? How?
Mental Health Issues with Adopted Kids
Adoption Legislation and Advocacy
Adopting a Child That Has Been Sexually Abused
A View of Foster Care from a Family Court Judge
Understanding and Coping with the Emotions of Infertility
Lifestyle Choices to Increase Your Odds of Getting Pregnant with IVF
What Preimplantation and Prenatal Genetic Testing Can & Can't Tell Us
Having a Baby as a Single Mom-Things to Consider
Parenting Techniques to Prevent Adoption Failures
Impact of Divorce on Adopted Children
Impact of Zika Those Going Through Fertility Treatment
Understanding the New Fertility Clinic Success Statistics
Finding an Adoption Competent Therapist
Helping Older Kids Prepare to be Adopted
Parenting Kids with Prenatal Alcohol and Drug Exposure
Fertility Tourism-Options and Ethics
Everything You Want to Know about Sperm Donation
Foster Parenting 101
Latest Developments in the Treatment of Endometriosis
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