Is Loganberry a soda? That was the question of the day at the staff meeting. One of my 30 day challenges is not drinking any soda for 30 days, and [&h...
Open Adoption Visits
Adoption STAR enjoys educating others on open adoption, also known as PACA (post adoption contact agreement), and we are happy to see that more and mo...
When Your Child’s Birth Mother Is Pregnant Again
This post was written by Adoption STAR CEO and Founder, Michele Fried, and was posted to a previous Adoption STAR blog in 2007. In June of 1990 my hus...
Help Me Help You…A Third Time
Maybe my love for Jerry Maguire trends a little bit to the extreme, but I can’t help it; every time I see the movie on a cable channel I’m...
Bindu’s Adoption Journey
Bindu had dreamed of being a mother for as long as she can remember, and though she said she hasn’t found that special person to start a family with...
Adoption STAR 30 Day Challenge Update: Video Blog
Today (Tuesday) marked the end of the first week of our 30 day challenge. Each Adoption STAR staff member picked an activity to do (or not do) for 30 ...
Adoption STAR Travels Around The World
In the past we have noticed that the Adoption STAR staff, as well as friends and family of Adoption STAR, visit some really interesting locations, and...
Reuniting With Birth Families in International Adoption
The Washington Post recently wrote a feature on two American teenage adoptees who were adopted from Eastern Europe, one from Russia and one from Kazak...
WAITING Part 2
This is part two of a two-part blog post on the waiting period one prospective adoptive mother, Lesa Quale Ferguson, has gone through with her family....
WAITING (Part 1)
In a Post from 12/20/2012) Prospective adoptive mother, Lesa Quale Ferguson, writes about waiting for a placement. She and her husband Dave have since...