Adoption Statistics – A Success Story

Birth Mothers Who Choose Adoption

Birth Mothers who place:

1. They are more likely to finish school and less likely to live
in poverty and receive public assistance.

2. They are more likely to eventually marry and less likely to divorce.

3. They are more likely to be employed 12 months after the birth
of their baby.

4. They are less likely to repeat out-of-wedlock pregnancy.

5. They are no more likely to experience depression than are single
mothers.

Adopted Children

A study released by the Search Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota
in 1994 confirmed that adopted children:

1. are generally less depressed than children of single parents and
less involved in alcohol abuse, vandalism, gang fighting, police trouble, weapons use and theft.

2. score higher than children of single parents in self-esteem, confidence
in their own judgment and feelings of security within their families.

3. are healthier than children of single parents.

4. are more likely as teens to be living in an intact 2 parent home than
children born to a married couple in the United States.