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Operant Sensation Seeking in the Mouse

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Published on: November 10, 2010

Single men seeking adoption.

Mary V Seeman¹

¹Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5P 3L6, Canada. mary.seeman@utoronto.ca.

World Journal of Psychiatry

|September 27, 2018

Summary

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Single men are increasingly recruited for adoption, especially for children with special needs. Despite societal skepticism, research indicates single men offer as much to adopted children as single women do.

Keywords:

Fathers Foster parents Male adoption Single parents

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Psychology
Family Studies

Background:

Historically, single adults faced global restrictions on adoption.
Current trends show active recruitment of single adults, particularly for older, disabled, or transracial adoptions.
Single men encounter skepticism and are often deemed unsuitable adoptive parents.

Purpose of the Study:

To review the limited literature on single heterosexual males in fostering and adoption.
To address professional ambivalence towards single men as parents.
To compare single male and single female parenting outcomes and support systems.

Main Methods:

Literature review of fostering and adoption studies focusing on single heterosexual males.
Discussion of parenting styles, neurobiological responses to parenthood, and support availability.
Analysis of outcomes for children parented by single men versus single women.

Main Results:

Single men are as willing as single women to adopt challenging cases.
Parenting by single men is met with professional skepticism and judgment.
Outcomes for children raised by single men are similar to those raised by single women.

Conclusions:

Single men possess equal capacity to provide for adopted children compared to single women.
Discrimination against single men by adoption agencies warrants further investigation.
Increased support and training for single adoptive parents, including men, are crucial.