Adoption STAR’s Director of Adoption Kathy Crissey relies on her years of adoption experience to write a letter from the perspective of a Birth Pare...
Expectant Parent Versus Birth Parent
When a pregnant woman contacts Adoption STAR for help with making an adoption plan, we recognize that the decision to contact us in and of itself can ...
Openness in Adoption – A Brief Description
Understanding the varying levels of openness in adoption is important for both expectant parents and prospective adoptive parents. Today’s blog post...
Creating a Birth Plan
For an expectant woman that’s making an adoption plan, the creation of a birth plan is an important step in the process. Typically a birth plan is a...
Birth Fathers – Grief and Loss
Regular acknowledgement of birth fathers and the emotions they may feel as a part of placing a child for adoption doesn’t happen enough….and that ...
Placing a Child for Adoption
Two different perspectives on making the decision to place a child for adoption – a birth mother offers one perspective while a birth grandmother of...
Benefits of Open Adoption
Here’s information from Adoption STAR’s Adoptive Parent Education Manual that discusses some important realities about openness in adoption. “Wh...
Birthday Sentiments Through Social Media
Historically, it has not been common to find articles written by birth mothers that involve sharing the positive things they’ve experienced as a par...
Ethical Considerations in Adoption
The following write-up was included in materials that accompanied the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Funded Infant Adoption Awareness Tr...
Birth Parent Legal Risk
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...