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Dispelling Adoption Myths
Yesterday, Adoption STAR wrote a blog post about “truths and myths for birth fathers” and we asked our Facebook followers about the myths ...
Adoption Poem Written by an Adoptee
This week’s adoption poem was written by a nine-year-old girl, Amanda Dees, about having two families; her adoptive family and birth family. Two...
Video and Pictures from the 2012 Adoption STAR Adoptive Family Picnic
Well it rained a second year in a row at the Adoption STAR Adoptive Family Picnic, but it was still a fun day as the kids enjoyed a great puppet [&hel...
Advice for Prospective Adoptive Parents
Recently a new Adoption STAR client, Lisa, posted a question on the Adoption STAR Facebook page, looking for advice as she and her husband begin their...
Adoption STAR July Podcast: Using Social Media to Adopt With an Adoption Agency
Adoption STAR has two domestic adoption programs for clients to take advantage of; Our traditional adoption program, and our Agency Assisted Private T...
WAITING Part 2
This is part two of a two-part blog post on the waiting period one prospective adoptive mother, Lesa Quale Ferguson, has gone through with her family....
WAITING (Part 1)
In a Post from 12/20/2012) Prospective adoptive mother, Lesa Quale Ferguson, writes about waiting for a placement. She and her husband Dave have since...
Your Newly Adopted Child’s First Doctor Visit
The Joint Council on International Children’s Services recently published a journal article entitled “Comprehensive Health Evaluation of t...
Petition To Save the Adoption Tax Credit
We recently touched on the changes to the 2012 adoption tax credit in our blog post on the “Top Adoption Stories of 2011,” and here is a p...