Adoption and single parents: a review

¹School of Social Work, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Child Welfare

|May 1, 1991

Abstract:

This review examines what is known about those who choose to become single adoptive parents. The demographic and personal characteristics of single parents who adopt are reviewed and the experiences of single parents with the children they adopt are summarized.

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