Angela Tucker is a valued voice in the adoption community! Learn more about her story (and her work) in today’s blog post. As per Angela Tucker’s ...
Family STAR Update – Search, Reunion and Open Adoption
Wendy Lane recounts some recent work she’s been conducting with a birth mother who’s looking for assistance and support. Family STAR has been gett...
Openness in Adoption – A Brief Description
Understanding the varying levels of openness in adoption is important for both expectant parents and prospective adoptive parents. Today’s blog post...
A Unique Relationship
Adoption STAR’s Director of Adoption Kathy Crissey suggests some important considerations for relationship development between prospective adoptive ...
Creating a Birth Plan
For an expectant woman that’s making an adoption plan, the creation of a birth plan is an important step in the process. Typically a birth plan is a...
Poem from a Daughter to her Birth Mother
Adoption STAR’s Director of Adoption Kathy Crissey shares a piece of beautiful poetry that would never have been written without an adult daughter a...
Benefits of Open Adoption
Here’s information from Adoption STAR’s Adoptive Parent Education Manual that discusses some important realities about openness in adoption. “Wh...
July 1st – It Was Written in the Stars
In less than a handful of cases in the past 14 years Adoption STAR has experienced informing a family that the birth parent(s) have revoked their surr...
Transracial Adoption Questions
Question: We hope to adopt our foster child who is African American. I am concerned about what he may face in the world. Was wondering what some of yo...
Ethical Considerations in Adoption
The following write-up was included in materials that accompanied the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Funded Infant Adoption Awareness Tr...