David Durovy and Peggy Gup
Recorded
October 12, 2021
Archived
October 12, 2021
54:40 minutes
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ddb002574
Description
One Small Step conversation partners, David Durovy (71) and Peggy Watts Gup (67), discuss their experiences as adoptive and foster parents. Peggy talks about being a life-long activist how the 2016 election prompted her to make major changes in her life. David shares what he has learned from fostering twenty children over his lifetime.Subject Log / Time Code
David (D) and Peggy (P) explain why they wanted to participate in a One Small Step interview.
P shares that she is also an adoptive parent and that her two children were adopted from South Korea. She shares some of the challenges she faced as a new parent.
D talks about his experience as an adoptive and foster parent and the challenges he faced raising children with a trauma history.
P talks about her oldest son who died age twenty-one due to an overdose.
P highlights the importance of the parent role, whether adoptive, biological, or otherwise.
P explains how Donald Trump's election played into her divorce. She details her expectations as a young girl growing up in the 50s and later being "a woman who did it all" in the 80s and 90s. P says she took care of everyone and Trump's election prompted her to think about who took care of her.
P says she has never in her life hated people more than in the last four years due to politics.
P adds that in her first sixty-five years of life, she never hated any single person or thing and that allowing herself to feel disgust or hate for individuals, to not be the nice, good girl, has been freeing.
P says that it was her oldest sister who indoctrinated her into politics. P recalls important moments that have informed her politics: canvassing with her sister to lower the voting age, the passage of Roe v. Wade when she was in college, and seeing certain jobs she couldn't apply for because she was a woman.
D talks about his mother and her role on his view toward women and women's issues. D adds that in 1970s he was in a self-improvement community that was led by a lot of strong women.
D shares his gratitude for being able to connect with people on a deeper level. P shares why she thinks story-telling is so important.
D describes how he first became a foster parent. He says his wife wanted to adopt a child from China and in supporting her, he want to a foster care meeting.
D says fostering children taught him that when you can love without expectation, everything will be alright.
Participants
- David Durovy
- Peggy Gup