While browsing the Facebook pages of fellow adoption agencies I saw a question on The Adoption Network page: “You can’t pick your family. Discuss:...
How To Address Adoption with Grandparents ~ From Both Adoptive Parents and Birth Parents
By Michele Fried, founder and CEO, Adoption STAR I remember countless stories of expectant parents I met with over the years who cried at the thought ...
Craft activities for children: My “Me” Scrapbook
It’s always important to promote creativity, especially with children. When these creative activities can be educational or promote confidence a...
Adoption In The News: Reunion 38-years in the making
NBC News tells the story of Damon Davis and his birth mother, Ann Sullivan, who were recently reunited 38 years after Sullivan made an adoption plan. ...
Pregnant: When Am I Due?
The Adoption STAR website has a pregnancy calculator that can help you figure out when you can expect to give birth. Calculating a due date can someti...
Adoption on the Stage
For those living in New York city, or who will be visiting New York, Brian Stanton’s one-man play about his adoption journey, “Blank”...
Meet Our Staff: Michael Hill
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: The Mystery of DNA Testing and Adoption
Jena Heath recently wrote an article in The Austin American-Statesman about the adoption journey she, her husband and their daughter Caroline have gon...
How to handle when one child has an open adoption and the other has a closed one
By Zack Fried, Adoption STAR Intake Specialist “I remember going to McDonalds with my birth mother when I was a baby.” Although this never actuall...
Adoption In The News: US and Russia End Adoption Dispute
The United States and Russia signed an adoption agreement on Wednesday that will hopefully begin to repair the embattled relationship between the two ...