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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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...
How did you know the Adoptive Parents you selected were the right parents for your baby?
Our Media Specialist Lesa Ferguson found this question on Facebook : “Birth mothers who created adoption plans – How did you know the Adop...
Birth Mother Celebration ’13: A Recap
At this year’s Birth Mother Celebration, my job was to take pictures and speak briefly about what open adoption means to me. During Adoption STAR’...
A Parent’s Journey to a Forever Family
Michael Schopp, an Adoption STAR adoptive father times two and now a Board Member of Adoption STAR wrote these words in 2010 about the surrender revoc...
Christian’s Story: An Airman’s Experience with Transracial Adoption
The new year always brings me a sense of renewed spirit and the opportunity to discover great new experiences in my life. This of course happens with ...
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...