Statistics show that children raised by single parents, especially mothers, have more problems than children raised by married couples. They exhibit more bad behavior, are more likely to grow up in poverty, to drop out of school, etc. This isn’t even debatable. While some single parents do a good job as a rule they cannot and do not do as good a job raising children as married parents do. Children need a mother and a father. It is wrong to deprive a child of the opportunity to have both a mother and a father by placing him or her with a single parent. Adoption isn’t about boosting the self esteem of the parent(s). It is about doing what is right for the child.
Allowing single people to adopt children is just another way of weakening and redefining the family.
This woman set about adopting a child as though she were adopting a puppy from the dog pound. She had no idea what this girl’s needs were or what she was getting herself and her daughter into. In the past, she would never have been allowed to adopt a child because of her marital status. If that had been the case today, everyone involved would have been spared a lot of grief.