Over the coming months we will be talking with Lori Holden, an emerging expert on the topic of open adoption. Her book, The Open-Hearted Way to Open A...
Are You Touched By Adoption? This Family Is!
At Adoption STAR, we often discuss being touched by adoption and truly whether you work at the agency or have worked with the agency, you know how mea...
Post Adoption Contact Visit Ideas in Buffalo
Adoption STAR is a not-for-profit adoption agency in New York, Ohio and Florida. The agency firmly believes that post adoption contact (open adoption)...
TV Mini-Series to Focus on Open Adoption
Recently, there have been a lot of reality shows, documentaries and mini-series to focus on the adoption journey, and the newest series “The Bab...
Issues and Perspectives in Adoption: Then and Now (Part 3)
This is the third part in a three-part series on the history of adoption, and adoption practices “then and now.” Much of the information was taken...
Issues and Perspectives in Adoption: Then and Now (Part 2)
This is the second part in a three-part series on the history of adoption, and adoption practices “then and now.” Much of the information ...
Dispelling Adoption Myths
Yesterday, Adoption STAR wrote a blog post about “truths and myths for birth fathers” and we asked our Facebook followers about the myths ...
10 Ideas for Open Adoption Visits
Yesterday on the Adoption STAR Facebook page, we asked birth parents and adoptive parents for fun outdoor ideas for open adoption visits between birth...
Open Adoption Visits
Adoption STAR enjoys educating others on open adoption, also known as PACA (post adoption contact agreement), and we are happy to see that more and mo...
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...