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Lost generation: adoption in America has collapsed; here's what to do about it.(Cover story)
ADOPTION is an unexpectedly rare phenomenon in the United States, and that's a supply-side problem. The U.S. is the third-most-populous country in the world, and each year more than a third of our country's 4 million births are to unmarried women, but it is estimated that in a typical year the total number of mothers who voluntarily relinquish their children for adoption is fewer than 14,000--barely enough to make a statistical radar blip on the demographic Doppler. Would-be parents trek to the Far East and mount expeditions to South America because there are so few infants available for adoption in the United States.
At the same time, a half million children ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Lost generation: adoption in America has collapsed; here's what to do...