1. It is difficult to be approved to adopt? Yes, there is a lot of paperwork and something called a home study and during that home study ...
Obtaining Educational Credits As Part of the Adoption Process
At Adoption STAR Every prospective adoptive parent must complete at least 40 educational credits prior to child placement. Credits do not necessarily ...
Adoptive Parent Infant Care and Infant CPR Classes ~ Just For You
Adoption STAR highly recommends that in addition to the adoption education required, prospective applicants should take an infant care class, includin...
Bonding and Adoptive Parenthood
CEO and Founder of Adoption STAR, Michele Fried discusses bonding with your adopted child and shares pictures of bonding time in her family. [jj-ngg-j...
The Baby Blues: Expecting the Unexpected
Sue Reardon explores a common but as of yet undiagnosed condition that many newly adoptive parents face called PAD – Post Adoption Depression Yo...
A Clear Definition of Open Adoption — Isn’t It a Spectrum?
Today we offer the second guest post from Lori Holden, an emerging expert on open adoption. Her book, The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helpi...
One Journey to Parenthood
By Michele Fried (reprinted from 2004) Marie* and Peter* (*names were changed) were coming up on their two year mark with the agency. Their home stu...
On Being Considered the Real Parent
Over the coming months we will be talking with Lori Holden, an emerging expert on the topic of open adoption. Her book, The Open-Hearted Way to Open A...
What Not To Say to Childfree Friends
Thanksgiving is a time of the year when many family members come together, it’s a time to catch up with that third cousin that you only see once...
What does National Adoption Month Mean To You
Yesterday we asked our Facebook followers to fill in the blank: “National Adoption Month is a time to __________” and we received a lot of...