Adoption Conversations - Keri

2022-03-26

Hello and welcome to conversations from the adoption and fostering podcast. In this episode we speak to Keri an adoptive parent living in North Carolina in the US. Keri shares her experience of being a licensed foster carer and adopting from the state. She shares her perspectives on the system shining a light on how the differs from the UK . Keri’s discussed the challenges that they faced as a family and the impact on her son. She also shares her experience of developing and maintaining links with her chi...

Hello and welcome to conversations from the adoption and fostering podcast. In this episode we speak to Keri an adoptive parent living in North Carolina in the US.

Keri shares her experience of being a licensed foster carer and adopting from the state. She shares her perspectives on the system shining a light on how the differs from the UK . Keri’s discussed the challenges that they faced as a family and the impact on her son. She also shares her experience of developing and maintaining links with her children’s birth mother counter the norm within the foster to adopt system.

Keri now campaigns to raise awareness of the challenges faced by adoptive families and you can find details of her work and writing in the podcast notes. You can visit her FB page here and see the details of her book there.

As always if you’ve experience of adoption, Fostering or special guardianship from any perspective and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook or twitter page or email us at

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