Single Adoptive Parents

Please find some of our best articles, essays and reviews on this topic.

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Parenting as a single mother or father presents special challenges. Whether a single parent by choice or because of divorce or death, parents must manage parenting decisions and challenges alone and find support outside of their immediate family. Read articles about the experiences of single adoptive mothers and adoptive fathers as well as insights from children who have grown up in a single-parent home touched by adoption.

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• A Different Kind of Normal
  by Joan McNamara (1998 | 339 KB | )
  
• Book Review: All Families Are Special
  by Norma Simon, Illustrated by Teresa Flavin (2004 | 408 KB | )
  
• Book Review: The Woman Who Raised Me
  by Victoria Rowell (2005 | 82 KB | )
  
• Book Review: You’re Not My REAL Mother!
  by Molly Friedrich (2005 | 83 KB | )
  
• Considering Placing a Child for Adoption: Thank You for Listening & Thoughts on Birth Motherhood
  by Susan Ledesma & Joy Retzlaff (2010 | 310 KB | )
  
• Deciding About Decisions
  by Becca Martinson  (1994 | 96 KB | )
  
• Family Stories: Carnegie & Sons
  by Pact (2009 | 130 KB | )
  
• Family Stories: Zora’s and Ezra’s Families Connected by Blood ... and Love
  by Pact (2010 | 162 KB | )
  
• Loss of Innocence
  by Becca Martinson (1995 | 95 KB | )
  
• Pact Family Stories
  (2012 | 2.54 MB | )
  
• Searching for Me
  by Lynne Connor (2008 | 114 KB | )
  
• The Importance of Support
  by Becca Martinson (1992 | 94 KB | )
  
• The Rights of Fathers in Prospective Infant Adoptions
  by Jon Ryan (1998 | 117 KB | )
  

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