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As a birthmother, one of the reasons that I decided to place my child for adoption was the fact that the father had died suddenly and it would be just me. I was reassured by the fact that the adoptive couples had a good marriage and would stay together. If I ever thought that it would just be one parent, I would have never placed my child with them, because I could have done just as well as them. So if you have a child and you are now single, raise them and do all that you can for them, but more birthmothers should see that they too can raise a child on their own just like you and NOT place their own child for adoption. Why tell someone they should not raise a child because they are single just to be raised by another single parent?