Birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptees all have rights on their adoption journey. This blog post aims to describe what each member of the adopti...
Speaking to Your Kids About Bullying
“Today I learned that exclusion, or leaving someone out, is a form of bullying. This is when a person or group of people won’t let someone play wi...
Issues and Perspectives in Adoption: Then and Now (Part 1)
The field of adoption has changed throughout the years. Before the 1980’s, almost every adoption was closed and there was no contact between bir...
The Odd Life of Timothy Green and Adoption
“The Odd Life of Timothy Green” was released in theaters last weekend and Jennifer Garner, who stars in the movie, recently spoke about ...
Dispelling Adoption Myths
Yesterday, Adoption STAR wrote a blog post about “truths and myths for birth fathers” and we asked our Facebook followers about the myths ...
Common Myths And Facts for Birth Fathers
Adoption STAR is the lead New York State agency for the Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program. This blog post is part of the training manual from...
Adoption Poem Written by an Adoptee
This week’s adoption poem was written by a nine-year-old girl, Amanda Dees, about having two families; her adoptive family and birth family. Two...
Adoption STAR Pen Celebrates the Beatles Abbey Road Photo Anniversary
We started the Adoption STAR Pen Around the World Project in January 2012 in order to tell a fun story of where the pen has been at the end of [&helli...
Social Media’s Effects on Child Adoption: E-Book
Adoption STAR has previously published individual chapters of its E-Book “Adoption and Social Media: The Effects of Social Media and the Interne...