According to an article in the Korea JoongAng Daily, Korean lawmakers have revised the country’s adoption policies with the help of adoptees and sin...
Sharing Your Favorite Movies With Your Kids
Flashback to favorite children’s movies Allow me to take a step back from the specific topic of adoption today, and let’s take a quick trip back t...
Celebrity Adoptions
Celebrity adoptions get attention from a lot of media outlets, and the Adoption STAR blog is no different as just last week I wrote a blog post about ...
Deciding Between Domestic and International Adoption
Parents who are looking to adopt have three options: domestic infant-adoption, foster-care adoption, or international adoption. This post is going to ...
Me and my Sister: Positive Language
Every week for the last two months or so I have written a blog post on the topic of “positive adoption terms” and the importance of using the corr...
Speaking with your Teenager about Pregnancy and Adoption
By Lisa Geiger, Adoption STAR Family Advocate and Adoption Counselor When I told my children that I would be working for an adoption agency, almost im...
How the NYS Marriage Equality Act May or May Not Affect Adoption
By Michele Fried, Adoption STAR founder and CEO After negotiations between members of the Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo, regarding protections agai...
Meet Our Staff: Lori Craig
For those who have not seen our new staff bio pages, we have recently added introduction videos for the staff members. I’d like to take the opportun...
Adoption In The News: Searching For Your Birth Family Through Facebook
Good Morning Everyone, hope you all had a great weekend. First off, we’d like to apologize for issues we have been having recently with the Adop...
Advice From Adoptive Parents
We asked our adoptive parents on Facebook page for some advice for potential adoptive parents, and received a lot of great tips. The common themes fro...