I'm still looking into options for intercountry adoption. My frustration is that most adoption agencies do not want to work with singles.
I understand that some countries will only allow married couples adoption. But what I have been running into is countries that have no such requirement but the agencies are imposing it!
Some do it under a belief that children should only be raised by two parent homes. I understand that rationale, but remember that these are children without ANY parents. Would it be better for the child to languish in an institution while people exist who want to love and cherish them? And who can promise that placing a child with a couple means the couple will not separate due to death or divorce?
Still others regulate this in response to the flux in international adoption laws - many countries are constantly tweaking the guidelines. While an intercountry adoption takes a couple of years, most of the time the agencies are operating on rumors not facts.
Finding financial aid as a single is similarly difficult as the many Christian organizations will fund only couples.
The only thing worse than adopting as a single mother? Adopting as a single father.
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