Need Your Advice

Your question depends on the type of Adoption you see your self doing? I would contact either your State Adoptions/DCFS and go to as many Orientations as you can. You may have to consider Adopting Older the age you stated is very popular, but you have great qualifications to Adopt!

I am a single adoptive mom of a two year old girl.. It was not hard for me to adopt and it hasn't thus far been too difficult to parent her... I did domestic adoption through an agency.. I was a little younger than the average single person adopting but it didn't matter to the agency.. I was matched just 2 days after having all of my paperwork in..My daughter was born 2 days later.. She became mine at the age of 2 days...If you would like to know more about my story feel free to contact me!! I say go for it!!! eeyore652001@earthlink.net

Unfortunately, they often have to jump through more hoops than couples or single women, so you will have to be prepared to do more hard work than most of us. Still, both domestic and international adoption ARE possible. Best wishes. Sharon

Thanks Julianna and Destiny and Sharon! You have all given me much hope.:)

As a single adoptive man, you may expereince many more difficulties that the women who post on this board. Men represent less that 2% of all adoptions conducted in the United States and while agencies may not be engaged in blatant discrimination, there is a general lack of expereince with masculine nuturing. I have been looking for a young school-aged boy for a few months now. I have had luck (a couple of offers for placement), but the matches so far have not been right for me. I have confidence that the right child will become available and offered to me shortly. You might want to reconsider your age requirements, however. Almost 50% of the children available in the scoial system are over the age of 7. Most of the younger (<4), single, and legally free children are placed very quickly (or adoptped by their concurrent foster families) or have profound medical issues.

You have a good chance. Actually things have been rough for some single moms as well, because they think no matter how you live there must me something wrong with you. The most important thing to do is find an agency willing to advocate for you and totally supports you. The more libral of an area you live in the better off you are in this area. Though there are tens of thousands of waiting American foster kids (I have adopted 3 through public foster care), these kids are usually have many issues and RAD is very real and a kid with RAD is very hard to parent..... If you have the money and are will to do the leg work there are a few countries very open to single male adoptions. If you can pay the higher fees there are also ways to get a homestudy completed where you live and use it all over the country. Check out the Adoption Information Clearinghouse, they have a directory of ligiament adoption agencies. Also, the INS and international travel advisory (I think that is what it is called) keeps a very up to date list of what each countries guidelines are. Many of the more expensive private agencies do take single applicants. I, even as a single mom, was turned down by a few agencies not wanting to work with any single parents.