Every year, Adoption STAR hosts an annual staff training and dinner (typically in the spring), a mandatory event for Adoption STAR staff. All employee...
“No One Is Going To Pick Me”
Finally your home study is complete and you have your first “profiling opportunity!” The excitement turns to disappointment as you realize that it...
The Call – Part 2
There are very few moments in life in which every detail is etched into our memories. Maybe you can remember what song was playing on the radio, what ...
Feeding Your Baby (Part Two)
In this two-part article, Adoption STAR will explore breastfeeding and formula feeding the adopted newborn. The second part of this article, we will a...
Feeding Your Baby
In this two-part article, Adoption STAR will explore breastfeeding and formula feeding the adopted newborn. The first part of this article, we will ad...
Cost Comparisons with Surrogacy and Adoption
There are many options that individuals and couples can consider when they wish to parent. Surrogacy, domestic adoption, international adoption and fo...
Adoption Leave at Work
Do you feel those who give birth get preferential treatment at work? The U.S. Department Of Labor’s Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) states t...
There is really no such thing as gay adoption ~ It is simply called ‘adoption’
Adoption STAR Founder & CEO Michele Fried Discrimination: The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especi...
True Story from 2001: A Special Adoption Story
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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Making Promises You Cannot Keep
Our Birth Parent Department Supervisor, Sue Shaw discusses the importance of Adoptive Parents keeping their promises to Birth Families. I have been wo...