Single Person Vs. Adoption In The United States

There are too many children in this world living without a family. Every child needs love, nurturing, guidance and someone to take care of them. The care giver does not necessarily have to be married or a couple. A single person can be a great care giver and family to a child as any couple. Here in the United States there are hundreds of thousands of children in foster care waiting to be adopted. Some will get adopted and some will just jump around from foster home to foster home. The wait to be adopted is long for anyone trying to adopt, but longer for a single person than a married couple. Even though every state in the United States allows single people to adopt, the single person will face a lot of barriers. A single person even though will meet all the criteria required. The couple whether married or unmarried will get first preference to an adoption. That’s because many people still have hat value that a child should be raised by two parents. Times have changed and there are many non-traditional families out there. There are many single parents raising one or more children. Either their divorce by choice or maybe they have lost their spouse. But no one is saying that these single …show more content…
They will need a support system from other family members to look out for their adoptive child. But this is also the same so with two parent family when both are working. They get outside help also. Adoption agencies tend to look more at the negatives of a single person than the positive that this person can be providing for a child. If a single person is financially stable and can provide the needs and be a family for someone in need, why not give them that right. Whether men went to war pr work, kids were raised by one parent. That was acceptable in society. It’s ideal to have two parents. But isn’t one parent better than no parent at