As adoptive parents your adoption experience does not end after the placement of your child, in fact it is just beginning. As a parent you will grow f...
How to handle when one child has an open adoption and the other has a closed one
By Zack Fried, Adoption STAR Intake Specialist “I remember going to McDonalds with my birth mother when I was a baby.” Although this never actuall...
16 and Pregnant and its responsibility to present adoption as an option
MTV aired a special episode of it’s TV show “16 and Pregnant” focused on adoption on Tuesday, and I was pleasantly surprised with the seriousnes...
Adoption In The News: Searching For Your Birth Family Through Facebook
Good Morning Everyone, hope you all had a great weekend. First off, we’d like to apologize for issues we have been having recently with the Adop...
Adoption In The News: Follow up on New Jersey’s Quest to Open Adoption Records
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie agreed that going forward, all adoptions in New Jersey should have open records. However, according to this story, ...
Adoption STAR Celebrates Father’s Day: Jon H’s Story
My adoption journey started with a dream that has been inside me since I was a young man. Like many who are starting this trip I had many unanswered q...
Test Your Adoption Knowledge
Yesterday I wrote about my day at the Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program (IAATP), and how I had to take a test at the beginning and end of cla...
Adoption Profiles From a Birth Mother’s Point Of View
Recently I spoke with two birth mothers, Aubrey and Erin, about adoption profile books and what made them choose the family that they ended up choosin...
Adoption In The News: Open Adoption Records in New York State
Good Morning everyone, hope you all had a great weekend! I’ve written a great deal about the bill to open adoption records in New Jersey, here i...
Activity Ideas for Birth Family-Adoptive Family Visits
One of the questions that we’re asked a lot is “where should we go/what should we do on our visit with our child’s birth family/adop...