By the Staff of Adoption STAR The agency’s most important daily job is to find families for children. Even though this is often stated, it is probab...
Considering the Adoption of Black Infants
There are more than 400,000 children presently in out-of-home care in the United States. Almost half of these children are Black. Many Black children ...
My Real Family
Guest Blogger, Zenobia, Age 13....
Birth Mother Celebration ’13: A Recap
At this year’s Birth Mother Celebration, my job was to take pictures and speak briefly about what open adoption means to me. During Adoption STAR’...
A Foster Family’s Story
Lynda is an Adoption STAR adoptive mom in the Western New York area. Currently she and her family are a foster family in the county they live in and a...
Happy Birth Mother’s Day from some of our Adoption STAR children!
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National Nurses Week 2013
Is celebrated annually from May 6, also known as National Nurses Day, through May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nurs...
Surviving Mother’s Day
The month of May can be a very exciting time in our area. Gray skies give way to sunshine and each day brings new beauty as flowers begin to break [&h...
My Baby, Not My Child
A photographer and University of Iowa student chronicled her journey all the way from conception through delivery in this beautiful story of an expect...
16 and pregnant
Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra, who were the teens featured in 16 and Pregnant an MTV show, are now 21 and have been together almost nine years, ...