DHHS

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 33% of children adopted from Foster Care have a single parent (U.S. DHHS, 2000). Research in the 1970's found that an estimated .5% to 4% of persons completing adoptions were single. Studies in the 1980's found from 8% to 34% of adopters were single. (Stolley, 1993)

Across the country the number of single parent placements slowly and steadily continues to increase, both in domestic and intercountry adoption. (Feigelman and Silverman, 1993)