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Your argument would only make sense if there were married couples turned down for adopting a particular child from China so that a single person could adopt that child. That is simply not the case.

As several people (including myself) have posted, married couples who meet China's medical, financial, and personal requirements are guaranteed a child.

As others have posted, the number of single people who can adopt a child from China is dependent on the number of married people because only 8% of the dossiers sent by an approved agency can be single people.

In other more adoptions from China by single people means that more married couples are adopting children from China; and not than some married couple is being prevented from adopting a child.

No, it is you who is not making sense.

I never suggested that married people are being turned down. Orphaned girls or boys should ONLY be adopted by MARRIED, HETEROSEXUAL couples. Can I be any clearer?

To allow a single woman to adopt a girl will only add one more statistic to an already PREDICTIBLE future that is NOT healthy for the child. Girls and boys NEED a DAD too.

I know, lets look down on kids who are unwanted and give them out to whoever wants them. Never mind that you are NOT doing them ANY favors. A single woman, who NO male wants will NOT be as asset for an adopted child. It will be housed away in daycare ... because she "has to work" and she really is ABOVE that stuff ... so what have you gained? NOTHING.

All you've done is add to the child's problems for sheer SELFISH REASONS. Yes, on the weekend she can wear her child as an ornament on her arm so she FEELS good about herself.

You're really not thinking straight. From your "logic" a gay male or a lesbian should also be acceptable. It's no wonder that MANY kids are soo screwed up and you want to repeat the scenario with adopted kids who already have a few strikes against them. What child wants to face the fact that NO ONE, in her/his family wanted them? They'll always wonder about them. We are simply NOT going to agree on this so we might as well stop replying to one another.