Join adult adoptee and adoption filmmaker Shelby Kilgore on this series, "Adoption Education" all about foster care and adoption, as she answers one question at a time. LIKE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE to her channel and PURCHASE A SUPER THANKS to help support her work!
Join Shelby Kilgore as she dives into whether or not adoptive families should celebrate 'Gotcha Day', pulling from my own personal experiences as an adoptee, research from the internet, what I've gained over the years from filming other foster care and adoption stories, and insight from almost 100 adoptees.
Join Shelby Kilgore as she dives into whether or not adoption trauma is real, pulling from my own personal experiences as an adoptee from Korea, as well as what I've learned over the years from interviews I've filmed with adoptees, adoptive parents, social workers, authors and a trauma therapist.
Join Shelby Kilgore as she takes an in-depth look at how to respond to, "You're not my real mom."
Join Lilly Fei, a Chinese, transracial adoptee as she shares about the importance of an adoption community.
Join Shelby Kilgore as she answers this question, "Why is it important to read adoption books?", where I feature Rooted in Adoption. This will be a recurring question in the series, where I highlight an adoption book, and sometimes even a guest interview with the author.
Join David Bynum, a domestic adoptee as he shares about his adoption journey and his search for answers to burning questions, he's had all of his life.
Join Shelby Kilgore as she shares her feelings as an adoptee about Mother's Day.
Learn about open adoption from Tiffany Henness, a domestic transracial infant adoptee.
Join Shelby Kilgore as she reflects on whether or not open adoption is better for the adoptee.
Join Shelby Kilgore as she shares about my reunion story with her first mother and aunt at 17 years old.
On this episode of Adoption Education, Kevin Barhydt shares openly about the multiple traumas he experienced as a child, and how his adoption trauma, coupled with layers upon layers of trauma led him into a life of addiction.