The Politics of Adoption

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2016

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Adoption has always been fraught with stigmas surrounding sexuality, single motherhood, race and immigration. Cristen and Caroline decode the underlying messages of how we perceive orphaned children, adoption stereotypes and the meaning of family.

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1:35.5	Welcome to Stuff Mom Never Told You from HouseofWorks.com.
1:44.5	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Kristen and I'm Caroline.
1:48.5	And today we're talking about adoption. And we are talking about adoption in one episode, one podcast episode, not 10 podcasts episodes, which we could because adoption is a massive, massive topic.
2:08.5	Oh yeah. And there's no way that we can possibly cover comprehensively all aspects of it in a single episode.
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