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My Life Story
From Youth Media Project
Caption: Photo by baaker2009, Flickr
“This is about my story, like a river, and how I got adopted.” - Teddy Garcia

  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:03
Adoptive Mom in Uganda provides food and love to 13 girls
Series: Generation Change
From Deutsche Welle
Caption: Katie Davis and Her Girls
Four years ago, Katie Davis was homecoming queen at her high school in the United States. Today, the 22-year-old is a single mother of 13 girls in ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KWMR-FM, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 27, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:01
  • Purchases: 3
Adoption Ritual
From Destination DIY
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When Katie Perkins adopted 10-year-old Tajenae out of foster care, they created a ritual to mark the occasion.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:46
Representing Yourself in Court
From Destination DIY
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A mother struggles to represent herself in a custody dispute when she runs out of money to pay her lawyer.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:58
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 044
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
From Paula Morell
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Lives can change in the flash of a moment: Helen Austin never sees the face of a stranger who saves her life, Susan Toone's life changes with one l...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Carla Contreras - heartwrenching adoption story
From Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Carla Contreras with Julian
In 2009, Carla took in a beautiful 8-month-old baby boy named Julian after he and his 2 siblings were taken from their parents by CPS. The parents ...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2011
  • Length: 00:30:00
DIY Rituals
Series: Destination DIY
From Destination DIY
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We depend on all kinds of secular and spiritual rituals to mark the ends and beginnings of things. Sometimes this means following a long-standing t...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, WYSO, WRVO, KUT, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Discovering George
From Eric Winick
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When a Los Angeles-based actress embarks on a search to uncover the truth about her birth parents, a series of uncanny coincidences paves the way.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 22, 2010
  • Length: 00:17:32
  • Purchases: 1
Heidi Portrait
From Jamie Courville
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Heidi was adopted from Iran when she was three years old and raised in blue-blood Virginia. She will never be able to find her biological mother, b...

Bought by KUOW, WAMC, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:51
  • Purchases: 3
How Many Catholic Schools Want Lesbian Parents? Nun.
From Matt Miller
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When Nadine Warner and her life partner, Laurie, adopted a child it never occurred to them that they may one day find the Catholic school system to...

Bought by WBEZ, Vocalo.org, and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 00:12:40
  • Purchases: 3
Open Adoption - Interview - Raw Audio
From Public Radio WorldWide - PRWW.org
Caption: Open Adoption (Interview 4 Emily)
Interview (20100112) with Becky & Doug Worner of Florida - who have 4 adopted kids, have had 43 foster kids in ten years (plus have 4 biological kids)

  • Added: Jan 12, 2010
  • Length: 00:11:31
LITTLE BOY LOST LITTLE BOY FOUND
From Voices of Our World
Caption: Journalist and Anthropologist Scott Carney
Reporter Scott Carney zeroed-in on the case of Subash, a kidnapped toddler from India placed in an orphanage for adoption.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 00:27:58
Fifty-Four Years
From Erin Calabria
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A mother and son reunite after fifty-four years apart.

Bought by KFAI, The Neighborhood, SALTcast Podcast, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2009
  • Length: 00:08:27
  • Purchases: 4
Adopt a Child, Save a Life
From Sarah Elzas
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An operation to evacuate orphans from Darfur, and bring them to France

  • Added: Aug 29, 2007
  • Length: 00:12:01