Episode

How Your Attachment History Shapes Your Parenting

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Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
Published
Jul 22, 2026
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Summary

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! When we think about attachment in adoption and foster care, we usually focus on the child. But parents bring their own attachment histories and life experiences into the relationship as well. Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker explores how a parent's past can shape their parenting, influence reactions to challenging behaviors, and impact family connection and healing. Dr. Wirta-Leiker is a licensed psychologist, transnational and transracial adoptee, adoptive parent, crea...