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Originally Posted By Jessie

If the only reason a woman places her child for adoption is because she is single, that's really too bad, because single parents with a strong support system can parent every bit as effectively as a married couple. The only difference in single birthmothers and single adoptive mothers may be that a single adoptive mother is CHOOSING to become a single parent, and therefore she may be in a better place financially and (maybe) emotionally to be a parent. I am a single mother of a three year old boy whom I adopted two years ago, and I'm proud of that. I have alot of support and my son has many wonderful male role models in my friends and family. We've talked about the different kinds of families there are...in my son's preschool there are some kids with a mom and a dad, some have just a mom, one has only a dad, etc. And if anyone wants to think my son would have been better off, or more loved, in a two parent home, think again. You'll have to do some fast talking to convince me.