Gretchen Sisson joins Frank Schaeffer to discuss her book Relinquished and what the experiences of mothers who relinquished children can teach us about adoption, reproductive autonomy, poverty, and family support. Their conversation moves beyond familiar culture war arguments to ask who gets supported as a parent, what happens when human beings become commodities, and what a genuinely pro-family society might actually require.
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Gretchen Sisson, Ph.D., is a qualitative sociologist studying abortion and adoption at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at University of California, San Francisco. Her research was cited in the Supreme Court’s dissent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and has been covered in The Washington Post, The Nation, All Things Considered and Consider This, New York Magazine, VOX, and other outlets.