Understanding the varying levels of openness in adoption is important for both expectant parents and prospective adoptive parents. Today’s blog post...
From Our Social Media: Adoption Contact & Get Togethers
Many, who are not familiar with Open Adoption, do not know how families get-together and keep in contact. The first year is spelled out, usually in th...
Meeting Janice
Adoption STAR Founder & CEO Michele Fried recounts the painful story a birth mother who had been raped and then placed her baby for adoption. She...
OPENNESS IN ADOPTION:FROM SECRECY AND STIGMA TO KNOWLEDGE AND CONNECTIONS
Authors: Deborah H. Siegel, Ph.D. and Susan Livingston Smith, LCSW Published: 2012 March, New York NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute Document T...
When Your Child’s Birth Mother Is Pregnant Again
This post was written by Adoption STAR CEO and Founder, Michele Fried, and was posted to a previous Adoption STAR blog in 2007. In June of 1990 my hus...
Reuniting With Birth Families in International Adoption
The Washington Post recently wrote a feature on two American teenage adoptees who were adopted from Eastern Europe, one from Russia and one from Kazak...
The New York State Adoption Registry
The New York State Adoption Registry is a website that can be used by adoptees, birth parents, and birth siblings of adoptees, in their efforts to con...
A Young Adoptee Takes A Journey Back to Adoption STAR
This Post was written by Adoption STAR CEO and Founder, Michele Fried. Deb and Susana were at the very early stages of the adoption process when a pho...
Adoption In The News: “‘Brown babies’ long search for family, identity”
CNN recently posted a feature story on the plight of adoptees from the World War II-era, who were born to white German mothers and African American ...
Adoption Reunion Story: Country Singer Reunites With Birth Mother
There are countless stories of celebrities adopting children, but far less of celebrities who were adopted reuniting with their birth parents. Country...