Cincinnati-based Rodney Lear interviewed me on his syndicated radio “Sunday Morning Magazine” alongside Angie Thomas, a NYT-bestselling author of The Hate U Give, and gun control activist Whitney Austin. The show aired on 4 radio stations on Feb. 4: WKRQ-FM (101.9) and WYGY-FM (97.3) and 6:00 a.m. on WUBE-FM (105.1) and WREW-FM (94.9).
This 20-minute conversation about my memoir A Family, Maybe has been the best so far – mostly because of Rodney’s unscripted questions, aiming to get our story down in all its drama and details. In talking to him, I realized how much my quest to get the story out is really about justice for adoptive families. Our families are viewed as ‘less than’ while committing themselves to the kids we are taking in. I refuse to accept that and demand that respect, compassion, and resources be given as much to adoptive families, who are actually raising the kids, as to other parties in this process. The disempowering, marginalizing scenes like one in my book when we, the foster adoptive parents of a child who’d been with us longer than with her birth family, are thrown out of the courtroom when demanding to be part of the process must never happen.
Lane Igoudin 