Today’s blog post will be fairly short. I just wanted to check in on Modern Family after this week’s episode had Cam and Mitchell meet wit...
Your Newly Adopted Child’s First Doctor Visit
The Joint Council on International Children’s Services recently published a journal article entitled “Comprehensive Health Evaluation of t...
Adopting From Haiti
After the devastating earthquake in Haiti two years ago, the US and Haitian governments allowed approximately 1,100 children who were on the verge of ...
Trying Something New For 30 Days
This morning at our weekly staff meeting, Adoption STAR CEO and Founder, Michele Fried, challenged all of us to pick an activity and to do it for the ...
The New York State Adoption Registry
The New York State Adoption Registry is a website that can be used by adoptees, birth parents, and birth siblings of adoptees, in their efforts to con...
Petition To Save the Adoption Tax Credit
We recently touched on the changes to the 2012 adoption tax credit in our blog post on the “Top Adoption Stories of 2011,” and here is a p...
The Importance of Positive Adoption Language
As a member of the adoption journey, how do you react when some well-meaning person asks a question using some version of the phrase “giving a c...
Adoption In The News: “Biological Mom Reunites With Child – 77 Years Later”
The AP recently ran a story on Minka Disbrow, a 100 year-old birth mother who was reunited with her daughter. According to the article, Disbrow gave b...
Adoption STAR Family Receives Memorable Holiday Gifts
Adoption STAR clients Sherrise and Clarence recently traveled to Ohio for the placement of their twin daughters Jade and Ja’Naya. A local Ohio T...
“Join” Us In 2012!
We hope that everyone enjoyed New Years weekend! Adoption STAR has a lot of great plans for 2012 and you can find all of our scheduled classes, events...