Namibia has agreed to follow the Hague Convention and may become an international adoption option for prospective adoptive parents. Adoption STAR’s ...
Family Leave Policies
The comptroller in Erie County, New York is examining family leave policies for county employees who have children or adopt. The importance of having ...
Resources: Parenthood for Me, Inc.
Prospective adoptive families should become familiar with this organization and the financial, emotional, and educational support it can provide. As p...
Adoption STAR: Going Strong!
Western New York Family Magazine writes about Adoption STAR’s continued success, even at a time when other adoption agencies are closing their doors...
National Bath Safety Month
Current and prospective adoptive parents should learn how to keep bath time safe for little ones. January is National Bath Safety Month, and therefore...
Damaging Secrets
An advice columnist offered sound advice as it relates to adoptive parents keeping their child’s adoption a secret. Agency staff members repeatedly ...
Bringing Attention to the Need for Adoptive Families
A recent article discusses how an abandoned baby inspired a campaign to promote the adoption of children in foster care. You may have seen the rather ...
Access to Birth Certificates
An article in the November 2015 Costco Connection sparked dialogue about adult adoptee access to original birth certificates. “Currently, the majori...
Adoption STAR Affirms LGBT Families
Adoption STAR was recently awarded the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) All Children, All Families Seal of Recognition. Every autumn, Adoption STAR hos...
When Hollywood Adopts
With news of Sandra Bullock’s second adoption comes an opportunity for dialogue on transracial adoption, the foster-adopt system, altruism and more....