Our International Adoption Coordinator Megan Montgomery promotes the upcoming workshop at the Adoption STAR office – Become an Advocate for Your...
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...
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...
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Making Promises You Cannot Keep
Our Birth Parent Department Supervisor, Sue Shaw discusses the importance of Adoptive Parents keeping their promises to Birth Families. I have been wo...
Adoption STAR’s Appreciative Adoptive Parents
Shortly after receiving placement of a child, many Adoption STAR adoptive parents find themselves feeling incredibly fortunate and grateful to have ac...
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What to Expect #3: Attachment and Bonding
To even begin to understand the reality of attachment and bonding we need to know what these terms mean. Attachment: Attachment is a tie between two p...
Adoption STAR Picnic Through the Eyes of a Waiting Family
Many families shy away from social gatherings during their adoption wait, especially where children are present. But we promise that the 13th Annual A...