In a Post from 12/20/2012) Prospective adoptive mother, Lesa Quale Ferguson, writes about waiting for a placement. She and her husband Dave have since...
Adoption In The News: Children Raised by LGBTQ Parents
LGBTQ adoption has been in the news lately as some states, specifically Illinois, have prohibited state funded adoption agencies from discriminating a...
Adoption STAR’s 30 Day Challenge
Last week I wrote about Michele Fried’s challenge to the Adoption STAR staff to choose an activity and do it for the next 30 days. Apparently do...
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Podcast
When prospective adoptive parents sign up with Adoption STAR, a family advocate will ask them to think about the health risks they would feel comforta...
Modern Family and Adoption
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...