World Association for Children and Parents (WACAP) has created the brochure, �Can Singles Adopt?�

They invite any single person who has considered adoption to contact WACAP.

WACAP is one of the most respected and experienced nonprofit adoption agencies. WACAP has placed more than 8,000 children with loving parents across the country.

Single women can adopt from China, India, Russia and the USA. Single men can adopt from the USA.

So that single parents won�t feel alone during their adoption, WACAP offers special support throughout the process. Each of their adoption programs that accept single parents has a designated Single Parent Specialist. WACAP also offers special consultations with social workers, support groups and helpful staff.

http://www.wacap.org/singleparents.aps

I'm a single mother, I've adopted my son about 6 months ago. I adopted through Faithful Adoption- www.faithfuladoption.org . For me as a single parent it was so helpful to use Faithful Community on their website, which allows to communicate with parents adopting at the same time from the same region. I never felt alone. Wonderful experience overall!

Hello all. I am doing a research paper on single parents who adopt and I have to have a form of personal research (poll, interview, etc...) by Friday. I would really appreciate if someone could answer these questions for me .

1. Why did you decide to adopt?


2. Before you adopted, were you financially stable? Meaning, a career, a home, and plenty of extra money just in case.


3. How old were you when you adopted?


4. When you adopted, were you and your child instantly attached to one another? Or did it take a few months?


5. How old was the child?


6. How old is he/she now?


7. What is the mental state of your son/daughter? Happy? Sad? Normal child? (No offense
meant if your child is mentally disabled.)

8. What did your friends/parents think about you adopting a child while single?


9. What was the cost of the adoption? Meaning, how much did you pay before you were actually able to adopt your child.


10. Did you adopt a child from the U.S. or from another country? Which state/country?

If you have any further information you would like to add, feel free. I need all the help I can get.

Thanks to any and all who may answer these..

Beth


(if you do not want me doing this, you can delete it, but I would really appreciate if I can get answers)


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Hi Beth, you are welcome to try for some help on your research. Members can private message their responses to you or post a reply in open forum if they wish to, we try to keep email addresses out of open forum, safer that way for everyone.

I wish you luck on your paper.

Hello - I just joined this community and I am trying to find people out there that are single and have adopted - I am in the process of learning about everything and really want to meet people to talk to - your post was jan 2005 and I am writing in April of 2007 - Is there anyone out there who wants to share their single adoption stories?

Hey, i dont have an adoption story. I am single and want to adopt though. I have one child and I want to adopt at least one.

to tj105-
i find single parents who want to adopt really facinating. i am new to this site, and have a daughter who is about to turn 4. i had another child (a boy) about 8 months ago, whom i put up for adoption because i had about 3 years of realizing how difficult it is to raise children as single parents. as i did not go through an attorney to find prosepctive adoptive parents, just word of mouth, i was AMAZED at how many people wanted to adopt, and i had a few interested single parents. it just sort of boggles my mind that a single parent would want to take on another, knowing that they'd be raising the child "solo". best of luck to you, though!!!
ps. i can understand the sibling thing, though. my adoption is very open, so that my daughter can be a proud, big sister, but it is hard on her when it comes to the impromtu stuff that she just wants her baby brother to be a part of!

I also find this topic very interesting. For the last year (since my husband passed) I have thought often about the possibility of someday adopting more children. As We had always wanted a BIG family. I am blessed with three beautiful children but had thought we'd have at least three more. I've wondered what the chances of adopting as a single parent are and how much your financial status plays a role. Someone told me "it's expensive to adopt" Is this ture. If so its so unfair that there are so many children out there who need a home and we (the kids and I) have alot more love to give. Just not a huge bank account. I could go get insiminated or something but I'd much rather give a child who really needs it a home and love. I have no intentions of ever marring again(no not even years from now!)

any way the cookie crumbles, it is pretty costly to adopt. international adoptions are even more so, as you might imagine. when i set out looking for my adoptive parents, my goal was to "cut out the middle man", an attorney or an agency, for example, in order to minimize costs that the adoptive parents would have to reimburse me (i wanted these funds to go to the child). i had inquiries...and lots of them...only through word of mouth. once i selected my couple,and before they reimbursed me ONE dime for medical expenses, etc, i put them in touch with the top adoption attorney in my county, as the actual "legalities" have to be done formally ( i believe there are adoption fascilitators that might run a bit cheaper, but check toe pros and cons of utilizing one of those) generally, at minimum, the adoptions costs include the following:1. attorneys fees for you and if the birthmother chooses an attorney (i did not) her attorney costs as well. 2. reimbursement of the birth mother's living expenses during the last trimester 3. reimbursement of the birthmother's medical bills and maternity clothing.4. if the birthmother is not local, any travel expenses related to meeting her at your place of residence, or vice versa.5. cost of a "home evaluation", or home study, done by a social services worker (this always struck me as so odd, given all the children born to totally unfit NATURAL parents)6.the cost of an Adoption services provider, who meets with the birth mother twice in order to explain the terms of paperwork, and then have it signed once the baby is born. this is the pretty "barebones" breakdown of costs, and i don't imagine that agency adoptions don't run much cheaper!
now, i will be totally honest and tell you that, in addition to all of these expenses, money plays a factor because some adoptive parents who are desperate enough (i actually had this experience) will offer boatloads of money to the adoptive mother who "chooses" them.
in my case, it turned me off IMMEDIATELY, but i am sure that there are some mothers who take the money and run... baby "brokering" being totally illegal, btw). as my adoption is really open, i chose a family who is middle class b/c i didn't want a sense of disjointedness for my daugher, who plans on knowing her brother quite well. i wish you tons of luck in your adoption endeaver..and adoptions might run a bit cheaper in different states, so i don't mean to discourage you. i am giving you california independent adoption "terms" and costs.

Thank you atleast I know what I am up against.

Hi there,

I am an adoptive mom. I adopted my daughter when she was 6 yrs old and will be turning 8 soon. I adopted her as a single parent. There is a lot of resouces out there. Let me know if I can offer any support.

Poeticvoice

Thank you for your offer of support.
Actually alot has changed since I posted that.
I actually getting married in October.
And He has three kids!
You never know what the future holds!
I am really looking forward to being a big happy family.

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Originally posted by poeticvoicee:
Hi there,

I am an adoptive mom. I adopted my daughter when she was 6 yrs old and will be turning 8 soon. I adopted her as a single parent. There is a lot of resouces out there. Let me know if I can offer any support.

Poeticvoice

Wow, good for you. I hope to adopt an "older child" in a few years myself. I would hang on to your every word if you felt like telling your story...

How was the first day? Did she call you mommy right away? Do lots of people ask about her adoption because they knew you the prior 5 years? Are there any issues with biological family? More, more, more

Side note, I am an adoptee and a birthmother and spent 10 years lecturing and counseling potential birthmothers and adoptive parents. I was also on the Board of Directors of the agency I used. But I never looked at it from this side before, and I'd love your insight.