Bindu had dreamed of being a mother for as long as she can remember, and though she said she hasn’t found that special person to start a family with...
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...
What does National Adoption Month Mean To You
Yesterday we asked our Facebook followers to fill in the blank: “National Adoption Month is a time to __________” and we received a lot of...
An Unexpected Pregnancy
This blog post was written by Cynthia Christensen, who is the author of “Restorative Grief: A Guide to Healing From Adoption.” Cynthia is ...
Thoughts on This National Adoption Month
This blog post was written by Adoption STAR CEO and Founder, Michele Fried. Today is the first day of November. For many it is just another Tuesday,...
Open Adoption: Post Adoption Contact
What is post adoption contact? It is another way of describing an open adoption, often within a written agreement between the adoptive parents and b...
Meet Our Staff: Emma Widmer
For those who have not seen our new staff bio pages, we have recently added introduction videos for the staff members. I’d like to take the opportun...
Answering your adoption questions
You asked and we answered. We receive emails on a regular basis from people touched by adoption, asking us to write about different adoption-related t...