Single people who want to foster or adopt a child for a wide variety of reasons, but there might be some misconceptions about their resources and capabilities as caregivers In fact, single people have ...

Across the country, about 120,000 children are adopted annually via private, foster, or international adoption. More than a quarter are single-parent families. Creating a family is hard and beautiful ...

I've always wanted kids but never found a partner to build a family with. I became a licensed foster parent and four months later a 2-week-old baby was placed with me. Days before her first birthday I ...

CLEVELAND (AP) - Across Ohio, an increasing number of single parents are choosing to adopt children rather than wait around for the right partner to come along. In Cuyahoga County, almost half the ...

A regretful single dad is considering placing his toddler up for adoption after fatherhood was not at all what he envisioned. Feeling lonely and secluded, he took to Reddit seeking the advice of ...

I have age and experience behind me. If you are a single parent, you can have just as good an environment for the child, if not better." Lawmakers in Ohio and Utah are moving toward banning adoption ...

Thomas Anderson had the strong urge to be a father, and didn't want to wait until he met a partner. He tells Kasia Delgado ...

Throughout most of modern history, the script for parenthood has been pretty straightforward: get married, bear children, raise children, take a cruise to Aruba, die. But today's child-rearers have ...