#11400 Adoption - Kimberly Henkel

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🗓️ 4 November 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 18:12 – What’s your perspective on how to respond to people in the prolife movement who say that the adoption system is broken? 23:40 – I’m in my 60’s, what can I do at my age? 33:20 – My daughter is adopted and has a wound of rejection. Do you have advice on how to help her? 41:10 – I’m an adoptee and have worked in the Juvenile justice system. The courts have a program called Court Appointed Special Advocates that helps as well. 44:56 – Are there foster care opportunities for medically fragile infants? 49:05 – How can adoption be made more of a first choice instead of second choice? …

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0:00.0	I'm going to Welcome back.
0:15.0	Cathag Gansz is live. I'm Cy Kellit, your host. Thanks so much for being here with us on this Friday afternoon or Friday evening or maybe Saturday
0:24.3	morning where you are it's National Adoption Month and I love talking about
0:29.0	adoption and I love talking with our next guest Kimberly Henkel.
0:33.0	So I do want to let you know if you have been thinking about it and maybe you have a question
0:37.1	about how to discern that if your family is ready for it or if you're ready for it or you just
0:41.8	want to ask about what it's like to adopt a child?
0:46.7	You're welcome to call 888 31187884,
0:50.6	AAA 3118784.
0:53.6	Kimberly is the founder of Springs of Love and the co-founder of Springs in the desert and
0:59.9	I'll let her tell you about what both of those things are,
1:03.0	but you've been here with us before
1:04.7	and talked a little bit about them.
1:05.8	Welcome back, Kimberly Henkel.
1:07.7	Thank you.
1:08.4	I'm so happy to be back.
1:10.3	It's very, very nice to have you.
1:11.6	I'm so glad we're gonna get to talk about adoption a bit.
1:15.0	We'll maybe talk about fostering children as well.
1:18.0	The Catholic community in the United States has an extraordinary resource in its married couples and its families and
1:25.8	I don't think they always know about the need that is out there for fostering and adoption.
1:32.0	Sure absolutely well right now there are over four and adoption. Sure, absolutely.
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