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Becoming a father - a choice for more single men

6/19/2016

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Published June 19, 2016 in Courier-Journal

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"Single men adopting children is a nationally growing trend.
“It’s happening everywhere as there are more men who want to be dads even when they are not married or attached in another way,” said Adam Pertman, president of the Boston-based National Center on Adoption and Permanency and author of “Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming Our Families—and America.”

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The Outside-In Fathers: The Single Man's Rough Road to Parenthood

1/8/2016

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Published in the Winter 2016 Edition of VQR (Virginia Quarterly Review)

Adam Pertman mention: "Adam Pertman, author of Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming Our Families—and America, and president of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency, believes that even a well-meaning social worker will generally choose a single female applicant for a child over a commensurate single male. At the crux of this phenomenon, he thinks, is cultural conditioning: “Men aren’t the primary caregivers—that’s the stereotype. So if a man adopts, is he really going to care for the child?”"

Article Introduction:
Rick Whitaker says he’s always known how he would start a family. He remembers a boyhood drive past an orphanage with the man who was maybe not his father, an Air Force vet named Rodney, who preferred to go by the name Butch. 

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