Maryellen Kandu & Pauline Pearce
Category: Connections
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1h 33m
Creating a healthy open adoption relationships is something that birthparents and adoptive parents need to do together to create more positive adoption outcomes, not just for their children but also for themselves. But nobody talks about how to do it. Until now. Join Maryellen Kandu (birthmother) and Pauline Pearce (her son’s adoptive mother) as they candidly share the challenges they faced building the kind of deep trust and friendship necessary to help the adoptee in their triad thrive. Educators like Maryellen and Pauline are critical for anyone whose adoption constellation includes open adoption, because not only are both experts in adoption, but they are in the same adoption triad. When they give advice, it comes from their lived experiences with each other, as a birthmother and her son's adoptive mother, as they built what is ultimately the roadmap you need to make your own open adoption productive, happy, and adoptee-centered.
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