There has been a growing trend of single mother’s today. It’s not just women who are divorced but even unmarried career oriented women who have felt the need to adopt babies as they want to attain motherhood by choice and not by chance.
This single motherhood increase can be seen globally as there are many professional women who feel that the procedure at adopting international baby is far easier than adopting a baby domestically. It has been found that in domestic adoption the mother would always prefer that her baby be adopted by a couple rather than a single mother so the process of adopting a baby becomes far more difficult than that on international level.
Single mothers want to adopt babies so that they too can give their love and care to the baby as in case of married women and these single women do have a dream to marry and settle down but then they want to settle down as per their choice.
Being a single mother is a tough decision as even today people feel that a married couple adopting a baby is like saving the baby and giving it a new lease of life but the same when done by a single mother is looked down upon and these single mother’s have to face a lot of criticism as they feel that the single mother is not doing justice to the person she marries by not providing him with a biological child.
Single mothers have a lot to think about on the financial and personal ground when it comes to legal adoption formalities, with it the need to find time for the baby and looking in to the needs of bringing up the baby single handedly and providing along the baby with a strong financial backing. Though at times this bringing up the baby single handedly has its own set of problems as sometimes due to heavy work schedule you may not find sufficient time to devote to your baby.
Today with internet savvy people and television the need to adopt a baby has grown fore folds and the issues dealing with single mother has made it possible to deal with the adoption process better. There are a number of internet websites that give you complete information regarding adoption and adoption procedure helping you to choose a baby. The support groups help you to reach out to the adoptive child’s family and give you all the needed help and support to interact with the baby before you get to adopt the baby legally. This support group gives you counseling as you make transition from a career woman to a single mother giving all the required guidance and information of bringing up the baby.
Single motherhood is a challenge which has become acceptable as woman are finding the biological clock ticking fast and the need to mother a child and give all the love and care along with not sacrificing the professional life has seen to a rise in single motherhood which today’s women have been successfully playing.
