In this two part blog post, Adoptive Parent Mentor Sue Reardon gives us a glimpse into the Open Adoption she shares with her children’s Birth Mo...
The Check-box Part 1
Our Media Specialist Lesa Ferguson has been working on forms for Adoption STAR. In this two-part blog series, she writes about her particular fascinat...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...