Adoption STAR Founder & CEO Michele Fried, advocates for open adoption records. She examines the current laws in New York, Ohio and Florida and t...
NAMING YOUR BABY
Adoption STAR Founder & CEO Michele Fried, inspired by the naming of the newest prince to the English Royal Family, writes about how she named he...
What Does Loving Your Pet have to do with Adoption STAR?
Adoption STAR will cover the donation fee to participate in the September 28, 2013 Paws in the Park Walk for the first 30 adults who sign up on the Ad...
Second Parent Adoptions: Not As Easy As You May Have Thought (Unfortunately!)
Unless it touches you personally, many people don’t realize that even though same-sex marriage has been making heading, there is still a fight on th...
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Safer and Easier to Find Adoptive Families at Adoption STAR than on Facebook
By Michele Fried, Adoption STAR Founder & CEO When I got home from my overseas travels, I logged on to catch up with “adoption in the news” t...
Carmela meets the adoptive family
Many people are apprehensive about meeting new people. Prospective adoptive parents are nervous wrecks when it comes to meeting the birth mother of th...
Funding Adoption Efforts
Have you heard of Crowdfunding? Forbes defines it as: “the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a la...
What to Expect #4: Developmental vs. Chronological age
By Our International Adoption Coordinator Megan Montgomery It is common for children who have been adopted (in particular at an older age and through ...
A CASE FOR OPEN ADOPTION
Adoption Expert Peter C. Winkler, LMSW, a featured guest blogger shares his expertise. He writes regularly for allexperts.com on the subject of adopti...
True Story from 2001: A Special Adoption Story
When Monica* first found out she was pregnant in her senior year of high school, she knew immediately that she wished to consider adoption. Her mother...