There are many children over 10 waiting to be adopted in US foster care, as well in orphanages throughout the world. Are you the family to adopt them? What special issues do families face when adopting a tween/teen. 

Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Mark Lacava, adoption therapist with the Modern Family Center at Spence-Chapin Adoption Services.

For a discussion of this show, go to our blog on June 4, 2015 http://creatingafamily.org/blog/. 

Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. 

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