The Adoption STAR website has a pregnancy calculator that can help you figure out when you can expect to give birth. Calculating a due date can someti...
Adoption on the Stage
For those living in New York city, or who will be visiting New York, Brian Stanton’s one-man play about his adoption journey, “Blank”...
Meet Our Staff: Michael Hill
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...
Adoption In The News: The Mystery of DNA Testing and Adoption
Jena Heath recently wrote an article in The Austin American-Statesman about the adoption journey she, her husband and their daughter Caroline have gon...
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...
Adoption In The News: US and Russia End Adoption Dispute
The United States and Russia signed an adoption agreement on Wednesday that will hopefully begin to repair the embattled relationship between the two ...
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 STAR Book Club: “Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother”
We’ve had great responses to the Adoption STAR Book Club that we introduced last week, and today we’re announcing that the first book the ...
Adoption Poetry
The adoption journey is shared in many ways whether it is by book, song, film, poetry or other creative outlet. The highs and lows for all members of ...
How to celebrate the joy of your new arrival while also dealing with birth parent grief
By Michele Fried, Adoption STAR CEO and Founder. Adopting Zachary was one of the greatest experiences of our lives. We can remember it as if it were...