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	<title>Adoption in New York, Florida, Ohio and Nationwide &#187; Closed adoption</title>
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		<title>OPENNESS IN ADOPTION:FROM SECRECY AND STIGMA TO KNOWLEDGE AND CONNECTIONS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authors: Deborah H. Siegel, Ph.D. and Susan Livingston Smith, LCSW Published: 2012 March, New York NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute Document Type: Practice Perspective PDF Full Report A major new report depicts just how extensively adoption in the U.S. has changed over the last several decades – from a time when it was shrouded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Your Child&#8217;s Birth Mother Is Pregnant Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adopting a second time]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 husband and I learned that our oldest son had a half biological sibling that was being placed for adoption. We experienced a great deal of emotions learning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reuniting With Birth Families in International Adoption</title>
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		<comments>http://www.adoptionstar.com/reuniting-with-birth-families-in-international-adoption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adopting from Kazakhstan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finding your birth family in international adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post recently wrote a feature on two American teenage adoptees who were adopted from Eastern Europe, one from Russia and one from Kazakhstan, and how they traveled back to their homelands with their families. The feature focused on Deanna Torstenson, 17, who was adopted at the age of two by an American family. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New York State Adoption Registry</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionstar.com/the-new-york-state-adoption-registry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adoption reunion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adoption searches]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Non-identifying information in adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 connect with their birth families. To use the New York State Adoption Registry, both the birth and the adoption must have taken place in New York State. According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Young Adoptee Takes A Journey Back to Adoption STAR</title>
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		<comments>http://www.adoptionstar.com/a-young-adoptee-takes-a-journey-back-to-adoption-star/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Speaking about adoption with your child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telling your child their adoption journey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 phone call changed their lives.  Within 24 hours of that call they found themselves flying from New York City to Buffalo, NY where I met them for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adoption In The News: &#8220;&#8216;Brown babies&#8217; long search for family, identity&#8221;</title>
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		<comments>http://www.adoptionstar.com/adoption-in-the-news-brown-babies-long-search-for-family-identity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 male soldiers who were in Germany on military duty. According to the article, “couples were often split apart by disapproving military officers&#8230;and the single mothers of the African American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adoption Reunion Story: Country Singer Reunites With Birth Mother</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionstar.com/adoption-reunion-story-country-singer-reunites-with-birth-mother/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionstar.com/adoption-reunion-story-country-singer-reunites-with-birth-mother/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are countless stories of celebrities adopting children, but far less of celebrities who were adopted reuniting with their birth parents. Country singer, Rodney Atkins, became the spokesman for the National Council for Adoption in 2008, and according to an article in the USA Today, Atkins soon found himself inundated with messages from across country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Steve Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple Co-Founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, passed away on Wednesday evening. Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004 and had a liver transplant in 2009. Jobs formally resigned as CEO of Apple in late August 2011. Jobs kept his personal life very private, however it is known that Paul and Clara Jobs adopted him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Adoption: Post Adoption Contact</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionstar.com/open-adoption-post-adoption-contact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Closed adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Different levels of open adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fears of open adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post adoption contact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[semi-open adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Why open adoption can be helpful to everyone in the adoption journey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://adoptionstar.com/?p=2966</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is post adoption contact?  It is another way of describing an open adoption, often within a written agreement between the adoptive parents and birth parents. Whether you are an expectant parent making an adoption plan or a potential adoptive parent, one of the biggest decisions you will make is how much post adoption contact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answering your adoption questions</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionstar.com/answering-your-adoption-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionstar.com/answering-your-adoption-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[How to speak to your grandparents about adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talking to your other children about adoption as a birth parent.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talking to your teenage daughter about adoption and pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teenage pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What birth parents are looking for in a profile book]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 topics. Recently the staff of Adoption STAR tackled these six questions. - “Educating high school kids about the benefits of adoption vs. keeping the child at such a young age. As [...]]]></description>
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