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Our Families Ourselves
Each week, "elder" millennial moms Ann-Sophie and Maria meet people who challenge the traditional notion of family-forming and parenting. We explore the joy, the pain, and - let’s face it - dysfunction of creating a family. Adoption, IVF, surrogacy, child-free by choice, and more … these are our families, told through our voices.
Our Families Ourselves
Blonde Ambition: Navigating the Foster Care System with Actress Laura Leigh Hughes
What an absolute *treat* this week as we chat with powerhouse Laura Leigh Hughes, LA-based actress and founder of The Unusual Suspects Theater Company, a non-profit serving youth. Laura is candid, funny, and shares her incredible journey of navigating the foster care system to adopt her now 15-year old daughter. And hot off the heels of her concert, Maria & Ann-Sophie share their lifelong love of another blonde performer and mom -- Madonna.
Join us as we talk:
- How the foster care system impacts thousands of children each year
- The ins and outs of adopting through LA’s foster care system
- Systemic racism embedded in the system
- Unexpected bonds formed between a foster child’s different caregivers
- Assumptions people make about adoption, and the challenges and realities of interracial adoption
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