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Podcast: Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The Bandage
Episode: S3E7 -CHALLENGES OF OPEN ADOPTION-BIRTH MOTHER AND ADOPTIVE MOM JENNY BECKNELL
Description: Jenny is a wife of 28-1/2 years, a mother of 6 and a grandmother of 5. She is a birth mother and adoptive parent. Last year she and her husband adopted a boy who is 17, and her oldest is her 31-year-old ONLY daughter, who she had an open adoption with.
Jenny says the open adoption with her daughter included face-to-face visits, and that she was included and welcomed by the adoptive family for the first 18 years of her daughter's life.
Because of her experience as a birth mother, she feels it is very important for the correct...