single parent

I have a lot to catch up on in the blog world and things that are worth note but perhaps the most important is the one I am currently dealing with. Introducing the subject of death and dying with kids traumatized by loss. My mother, who has been ill for years and has been hospitalized and operated on more in the last decade than anyone I know. Each time you hold your breath and hope all works out and you never give up the hope that there is fight left. I really thought after a kidney transplant things would be different. Well things are different but still not good.

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)