Today’s adoption poem, “To Her Birthmother” was written by Tom Fisher. The poem focuses on the love and connection between birth par...
Telling Your Child Their Birth Story
Adoption STAR will be holding an adoption class on “Telling Your Child Their Birth Story” on Thursday, September 13, from from 6:00 pm ...
Common Myths And Facts for Birth Fathers
Adoption STAR is the lead New York State agency for the Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program. This blog post is part of the training manual from...
When Your Child’s Birth Mother Is Pregnant Again
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 hus...
Parenting a child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
This is the second in a two-part blog series on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Click here to read part one on the prevention of and signs and symptoms of F...
Schools to Take Advantage of Social Media
If you are reading this blog post then you are part of the ever-growing social media community. Whether your preferred outlet is blogging, Facebook, T...
The Barber
This is a guest blog post by Robert Hafetz. It was originally published by NJ CARE in 2008. You can contact Robert at [email protected] or visi...
Meet Our Staff: Alex Rubin
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...
“You Can’t Pick Your Family”
While browsing the Facebook pages of fellow adoption agencies I saw a question on The Adoption Network page: “You can’t pick your family. Discuss:...
Pregnant: When Am I Due?
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...