Many people are apprehensive about meeting new people. Prospective adoptive parents are nervous wrecks when it comes to meeting the birth mother of th...
Funding Adoption Efforts
Have you heard of Crowdfunding? Forbes defines it as: “the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a la...
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 ...
A CASE FOR OPEN ADOPTION
Adoption Expert Peter C. Winkler, LMSW, a featured guest blogger shares his expertise. He writes regularly for allexperts.com on the subject of adopti...
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...
Wordless Wednesdays – Summer Fun
As we gear up for Adoption STAR’s Annual Summer Picnic, we checked in with our STAR families to see what kind of summer fun they’ve had so...
Adoption STAR’s Appreciative Adoptive Parents
Shortly after receiving placement of a child, many Adoption STAR adoptive parents find themselves feeling incredibly fortunate and grateful to have ac...
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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...