Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
My Unknown Truth is a podcast sharing the stories and lived experiences of Australians who have been through adoption and foster care.
These stories are often complex, spanning over 50 years and touch on difficult truths, from growing up in an under-resourced system to Australia’s traumatic history of forced adoptions and Stolen Generations.
But within the darkness, there is also light; stories of hope, courage, resilience, and love. Hosted by Nadia Levett, an adoptee born and raised in Australia, this podcast is a deeply personal project.
It’s my wish that by sharing a range of voices and experiences, we can build greater awareness and understanding around adoption and foster care in Australia, spark informed conversations, and encourage others to share their truth, open hearts, minds, and homes to children in need.
Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 5 - Still Waiting: Foster Care, Family, and the Weight of Adoption
In episode 5 I speak with Andrea who is a foster care mother to four children. She talks openly and honestly about her experiences in the foster care program over 10 years. We look closely at her story with their eldest boy that she and husband Paul have cared for since 16 months old.
It is a rollercoaster of challenges and emotions and the space is still “inconclusive” in finalising his adoption.
This episode references the Indigenous heritage of a biological family and explores the added layer of cultural complexity this brings to an adoption process.
In engaging in this conversation, I acknowledge the ongoing hurt and harm caused to First Nations Australians by the policies, laws and practises of Australian governments, (State and Federal), in relation to the forced removal of Indigenous children from their families.
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The Australian Adoption Podcast with host Nadia Levett!
