Janet Menke is a birthmother to a son in an open adoption. She is married to Greg, the birthfather, and lives with their daughter just outside of Balt...
Basic Principles of Counseling: Focusing on Grief
Wendy Lane. LMT, MSW, recaps a staff training on the Basic Principles of Counseling: Focusing on Grief taught by a professor of Counseling and Educati...
A Portrait of Open Adoption
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...
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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...
Mirror
Guest Blogger: Steve Harris, Program Director, Radio One Cincinnati and Adult Adoptee When you’ve been raised with your birth-family, you can look i...
Professional Ethics and Values in Pregnancy Counseling
Associate Director Michael Hill, As the New York State Project Lead for the Federally-funded Infant Adoption Awareness Training Project (IAATP), I’v...
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A Journey To Hope
Guest Blogger Christy Lohner speaks about her domestic second open adoption and how different it was from her much more open first international adopt...
Divorce After Adoption
You put together a charming profile that boasts of your loving relationship, your inviting home and the wonderful life that awaits a child. Certainly ...
Coincidence or Divine Intervention
By Michele Fried Years ago, I wrote an article that stemmed from a family conversation about whether things are simply coincidence or fate. I intervie...
An Adoptee’s Journey: Christian’s Story
Since the Adoption STAR Blog started about one month ago, we have told many birth parent and adoptive parent stories. Today we will be telling the ado...