Today’s positive adoption term is “was adopted” and its counterpart is “is adopted.” At Adoption STAR we believe that once you have adopted ...
Adoption In The News: Adult Adoption
Good Morning Everyone! Hope you’re enjoying the sun and heat that June is bringing us. Most adoptions involve adoptive parents welcoming a child und...
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...
Adoption STAR Number 1 Father/Father Figure Contest
Father’s Day is fast approaching and we want to celebrate all of the fathers and father figures in the Adoption STAR community. Starting today u...
Will You Need to Replace Your Crib?
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted unanimously to approve new mandatory standards for full-size and non-full-size baby cribs. Th...
Positive Adoption Language: “Making an Adoption Plan”
Today’s positive adoption term is “making an adoption plan” or “made an adoption plan for my child” and it’s negat...
1,000 is a big number…
And we want to get there. We are currently sitting at over 830 Facebook followers and we need your help to get us to that nice round number 1,000. As ...
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...
Adoption In The News: Using Social Media for a Birth Family Search
We recently published our official recommendations on how to handle social media as it relates to adoption as a birth parent or adoptive parent http:/...
Open Adoption Records in New York State
New York Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin (D-24th A.D.) is sponsoring legislation concerning his “Bill of Adoptee Rights” (A.2003) to open adop...