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The Dr. Laura Podcast

The Difficulties of Open Adoptions

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Lindsay is aware that her son's birth mom is struggling emotionally since the adoption, and she wonders how much her son should be told. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast.

0:02.9

You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.

0:11.4

Lindsay, welcome to the program.

0:14.0

Hi.

0:15.0

Hi.

0:15.7

How are you?

0:16.8

Thank you for taking my call, Dr. Laura.

0:20.0

How can I help?

0:22.4

Okay.

0:23.3

So we, my husband and I adopted our son 15 years ago.

0:30.9

He's now 15.

0:32.4

And we adopted him from our niece, who had gotten pregnant at 15 15 and she gave him up, you know,

0:41.2

up for adoption to us when she was 16.

0:46.0

Our son has grown up knowing that she is his birth mother, and they talk, see each other, maybe two or three times a year. And it's gone

1:00.5

pretty well. We feel like he's grown up in a very healthy environment in a very healthy way.

1:08.8

And so it's gone well, you know. Now, recently, she, I think that she's gone through

1:19.6

a lot of healing on her own. Sorry, I'm kind of nervous. It's all right. You're doing great.

1:28.1

Okay.

1:29.7

So recently, she went on a podcast.

1:35.3

And, you know, an hour-long podcast where she was interviewed.

1:39.8

And she shared her life experiences from the past 15 years.

1:45.0

One thing she went into was the experience of giving him away, the experience of,

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