Members of Adoption STAR’s Rochester adoption support group, SOFIA, recently got together for a great Halloween event…and sent us some gre...
Adoption On TV: Modern Family and Parenthood Adoption Plots
Salon recently published a blog post comparing the way two television shows, “Modern Family” and “Parenthood,” have recently t...
Adoption STAR Staff’s Halloween Past
Whether you are a kid getting ready to go Trick-or-Treating or a parent preparing to brave the weather and take your child trick-or-treating, Hallowee...
Celebrity Adoption: Viola Davis
Actress Viola Davis, who is nominated for an Oscar for her role in the movie “The Help” recently became a mother for the first time with t...
Non Violent Communication Method
Yesterday morning the Adoption STAR staff took part in a training session on “non-violent communication (NVC.)” The goal of NVC is to learn to cla...
LGBTQ Adoption Information Session in Syracuse
For those in the Syracuse area, there will be a “Foster Care and Adoption Information Session for LGBTQ People” on Wednesday, November 9 f...
Adopting a Child with Special Needs
Last week I wrote part one of a blog post on Bernie and Sheila Winter and their daughter Grace, who was born with Down Syndrome. Part one centered on ...
Was The Former Libyan Dictator An Adoptive Father?
This post was written by Adoption STAR CEO and Founder Michele Fried. With the death of Muammar Gaddafi, allegedly the father of eight or nine childre...
Celebrity Adoption: Mariska Hargitay adopts for second time
Actress Mariska Hargitay, whose best known for her role on “Law and Order: SVU,” and her husband, Peter Hermann, recently adopted their se...
Making Your Child’s Halloween Costume
Halloween was always one of my favorite holidays growing up, I can remember being Batman more than once, as well as a New York Yankee player, and of c...