Allison Breininger and Barbara Resch
Recorded
July 24, 2010
37:58 minutes
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Id:
MBX006939
Description
Barbara Resch (61) interviews her daughter Allison Breininger (30) about motherhood and Allison’s adoption of a Hatian child.Subject Log / Time Code
AB discusses her fertility problems in her early 20s due to endometriosis.
AB discusses deciding to adopt outside of the country versus from within the US.
AB discusses meeting her adopted daughter and her family in Haiti, their living conditions and how long the process took.
AB discusses going to Haiti for a month to get the process moving after the Hatian Embassy wasn’t returning their calls.
AB discusses challenges in raising her Hatian daughter with she and her husband being white Americans.
AB talks about educating her family about adoption etiquette and racial sensitivity amongst family and friends.
Participants
- Allison Breininger
- Barbara Resch
Venue / Recording Kit
Tier
Keywords
- Appearance
- Beads
- braids
- career
- college
- Creole
- Dancing
- Earthquake
- Embassy of the United States Port Au Prince Haiti
- endometriosis
- Fertility treatment
- hair styles
- Haiti
- identification cards
- In Vitro Fertilization
- Infertility
- Language Barriers
- Laparoscopic surgery
- personal experiences
- Port Au Prince
- Sean Breininger
- Spouse
- St. Paul, Minnesota