Parents who are looking to adopt have three options: domestic infant-adoption, foster-care adoption, or international adoption. This post is going to ...
Me and my Sister: Positive Language
Every week for the last two months or so I have written a blog post on the topic of “positive adoption terms” and the importance of using the corr...
Speaking with your Teenager about Pregnancy and Adoption
By Lisa Geiger, Adoption STAR Family Advocate and Adoption Counselor When I told my children that I would be working for an adoption agency, almost im...
How the NYS Marriage Equality Act May or May Not Affect Adoption
By Michele Fried, Adoption STAR founder and CEO After negotiations between members of the Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo, regarding protections agai...
Meet Our Staff: Lori Craig
For those who have not seen our new staff bio pages, we have recently added introduction videos for the staff members. I’d like to take the opportun...
Adoption In The News: Searching For Your Birth Family Through Facebook
Good Morning Everyone, hope you all had a great weekend. First off, we’d like to apologize for issues we have been having recently with the Adop...
Advice From Adoptive Parents
We asked our adoptive parents on Facebook page for some advice for potential adoptive parents, and received a lot of great tips. The common themes fro...
Adoption In The News: Follow up on New Jersey’s Quest to Open Adoption Records
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie agreed that going forward, all adoptions in New Jersey should have open records. However, according to this story, ...
Wall Street Journal Blog Reviews: “Adoption Nation”
If you are looking for a new book on adoption, The Wall Street Journal blog recently reviewed an updated edition of “Adoption Nation” by Adam Pert...
Celebrity Domestic Adoptions
We can go through the list of celebrities who have adopted children including Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell, S...