Adoption STAR Founder & CEO Michele Fried wrote this post in 2003 after the first Birth Parent Holiday Party held at the Niagara Falls Boulevard ...
Meeting Janice
Adoption STAR Founder & CEO Michele Fried recounts the painful story a birth mother who had been raped and then placed her baby for adoption. She...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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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...
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Waiting for the Right Baby
By Michele Fried, Adoption STAR Founder & CEO Marie and Peter were coming up on their two-year mark with the agency. Their home study was already...