Keep in perspective that deciding on adoption is a courageous, difficult choice and some birth parents will struggle with their decision to make an ad...
Answers to Questions Regarding the Universal Accreditation Act
We submitted our questions to the Department of State and USCIS and now they, along with COA, will give us answers and information at a Free UAA Updat...
The Universal Accreditation Act of 2012 Will Be In Force This July
Starting July 14, 2014, any agency or person providing adoption services in intercountry adoption cases involving orphan children will need to be accr...
UPDATE – Lawsuit Filed by Same-Sex Married Parents and Adoption STAR Seeks to End Discrimination on Birth Certificates
On March 3rd of this year, we published a blog post that talked about how Adoption STAR and several same-sex married parents had filed a lawsuit again...
New Ohio Law and Open Adoptions
A new law was signed by the state’s governor, John Kasich in December 2013 allowing those adopted between January 1964 and September 1996 to obtain ...
Erie County Adoption Statistics 2013
Adoption STAR has a main office in Erie County. So we thought it would be nice to provide a report on how our county is doing regarding facilitating a...
Take Action to Save the Adoption Tax Credit
On February 26th 2014, David Camp, chair of the Ways and Means Committee, released his much anticipated tax reform proposal and it proposes eliminatin...
Lawsuit Filed by Same-Sex Married Parents and Adoption STAR Seeks to End Discrimination on Birth Certificates
The lawsuit, presented in Cincinnati, Ohio on February 10, 2014, seeks a federal court order requiring Ohio to place the names of both married same-se...
A Glimpse at the Adoption Subsidy
In anticipation of Our Shining STAR Event, we are featuring a weekly blog series on Special Needs Adoption. On Wednesday January 29th, 2014, Adoption ...
Pros and Cons to Social Media and Adoption
In the news, there have been numerous incidents were hopeful adoptive parents have been scammed by ads online. In today’s blog post, we explore ...