The Complexities Of Adoption: Money, Marketing, and Ethics with Gretchen Sisson
Cate & Ty Break It Down
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🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Gretchen Sisson, author of ​Relinquished, ​sits down with ​Cate & Ty​ to discuss​ about her research​ on the gap between the cultural perception of adoption and the lived experiences of birth parents.​ Gretchen talks about the coercion and ​lack of ​resources​ playing a significant ​part that often le​d women to choose adoption​, emphasizes that many would have chosen differently had ​t​hey had more financial stability​ and support. The conversation also delves into the adoption industry​ using marketing tactics, ​their financial aspects,​ and the ethical concerns ​surrounding the system's inherent inequalities​. ​Is every adoption a failure of society to provide adequate support for families​? Cate & Ty break it down with Gretchen as she provides a nuanced look at adoption, challenging common assumptions and highlighting the need for change to better support birth parents, adoptees, and families in need.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hi guys, and welcome back to another episode of Kate and I, break it down. |
| 0:12.8 | Today we have somebody who we are really excited to talk to. |
| 0:16.7 | I have listened to her book, and we are super excited to have her on our podcast today. |
| 0:23.2 | Please welcome Gretchen Sisson, author of Relinquished. |
| 0:26.7 | Hi. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello, we're so happy you're here. |
| 0:29.3 | No, thank you for coming. |
| 0:32.5 | It's been a joy and I'm learning a lot from your book. |
| 0:37.4 | I feel like, I feel like as a birth parent, |
| 0:40.3 | I kind of went through a fog of my own, you know? And so just like, it's very eye-opening to me |
| 0:46.4 | to listen to all the different stories and the statistics. And it's been, I really enjoy listening |
| 0:52.1 | to it. Yeah, because I honestly, ever since she started listening to it, I actually mentioned it to her. |
| 0:56.2 | I was like, you really should read this book. |
| 0:57.3 | Because I didn't even get through more than half of it before I was like, all right, I have to, you have to read this. |
| 1:02.5 | And then she does the audio stuff when she's driving. |
| 1:04.9 | So she'll come back home after listening to it. |
| 1:07.1 | She's like, oh, my gosh. |
| 1:07.8 | Did you know? And I'm like, wow, I kind of see you like completely getting a, just more information because as a birth parents, we kind of, |
| 1:15.3 | we're only fed so much of the truth, I guess. And so like the whole point of birth parents, I think, |
| 1:21.5 | have our own kind of fog that we go through trying to, you know what I mean. So it was good |
| 1:26.9 | to read just an unbiased, |
| 1:29.9 | you know, just fact-based thing. Well, thanks for saying that. And I think that a lot of birth |
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