Choosing a Single Colorado Woman to Adopt My Baby
By Lindsay Parkoo
As a birth mother choosing adoption for your child, you get the option to pick the adoptive family. Adoption agencies give you adoptive family profiles to choose from based on your preferences. While choosing a couple to take care of your baby is common, there is one demographic that is overlooked. Why not choose a single mother to raise your baby as one of your options for adoption? Single mothers have some advantages to raising children that many don’t consider.
Adoption Choices of Colorado can help you create an adoption plan that includes several resources for you. We’ll let you know the types of adoptions that appeal to you and your preferences as well. Search ‘adoption Colorado‘ to find Colorado adoption agencies near you and learn more about your options.
Let’s look at the reasons you might want to pick a single mother to adopt your baby.
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5 Reasons You Might Choose a Single Woman to Adopt Your Baby
1. Single Mothers Choosing to Adopt are Financially Stable
Maybe you’re experiencing an unplanned pregnancy, and you’re worried about finances for your child. Childcare isn’t cheap, after all. Since single mothers are choosing to raise a child by themselves, they would need to be financially stable. They would need to be on top of their finances since they don’t have a partner. Single mothers also make all the decisions, so they don’t have to fight their partners about spending money.
2. Single Mothers Choosing to Adopt Focus on Their Children
Single parents can give their children full attention. Having a child as a single mother makes them their top priority. That means they focus most of their time and attention on their child. You won’t need to worry about them being neglected by one parent over the other. That time they spend leads to a stronger relationship as well. If your child feels attended to, they are more likely to feel safe and happy.
3. Single Mothers Choosing to Adopt Teach Community
There are times when single parents need help. They often have several people outside their family that help support them. Single mothers have the opportunity to start loving families with big communities dedicated to caring for their children. Your child will have a community that will teach other life lessons that will help them. Through community, they learn social skills. Your child also learns how to ask for help and find a sense of belonging in their social circles. The sense of community they gain will help them make sure that they don’t have to do anything alone. Even so, there are organizations for single-parent households to meet and grow their communities. This is something to consider, especially during the adoption process.
4. Single Mothers Choosing to Adopt Have a Close Bond
Single mothers tend to have a close bond with their children. Because they spend most of their time with their child, they’ll learn to better understand them. Single mothers better learn their needs and build an emotional bond as well. This bond they build can also better help them learn emotional maturity. Your child is less likely to not communicate or not come to them for help and advice.
5. Single Mothers Choosing to Adopt Raise Independent Children
Single parents can lead by example. Though they might struggle more, single mothers must be very adaptable. Their kids will be able to see first-hand how to handle tough situations and be self-sufficient. Single mothers are the best demographic to teach them responsibility as well as what a community is. They learn to understand what contribution means and will want to help out more. This leads to a child that is more conscious of struggling and more willing to be charitable. That can help them lead their own happy and successful lives down the road.
Learn about Your Colorado Adoption Choices
Single parents give quality love and care just as much as anyone else. So why not give them a chance and choose a single mother during the adoption process? At adoption agencies in Colorado, you’ll get everything you need for a smooth process. You’ll get all the emotional, financial, and medical support you need when ‘giving up a child for adoption.’ Although, know that you’re not “giving them up.” The top adoption agencies in Colorado provide family profiles for you to choose from. Give a single mother a chance and contact Adoption Choices of Colorado.
If you are facing an unplanned pregnancy and want to learn more about your adoption options, contact Adoption Choices of Colorado by email, phone, or text: Email Us, Text us: 720-371-1099, Call us: 303-670-4673 (HOPE). If you are hoping to adopt, please contact us here.
Stephanie joined the Adoption Choices family in 2014 as the Child Placement Supervisor. Her love for adoption began in first grade when she made friends with twins adopted from Vietnam. Her heart grew strong over the years for adopted children and ultimately led her to graduate school where she continued her focus to her dream of working in the adoption field. Stephanie earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Denver in 2001. Over the past 15 years, Stephanie has worked as a pregnancy counselor and as an adoptive parent counselor for foster care, international adoption and domestic adoption, writing hundreds of home studies for families, and helping build their forever families. Stephanie is married and has three boys ages 12, 9, and 5. Together with her family she enjoys riding bike, playing games, watching her three sons compete in their various sporting and musical activities and go on vacations.
Christy Ikeler, is our Executive Director and Birth Parent Director. Christy has been with Adoption Choices Team for 18 years, since opening the doors in 2002! Christy has a true passion for what she does and her true love is working with and helping each birth parent. Whether she is up all night on the phone talking with them, taking them to doctors appointments, out for their favorite treat, providing counseling or at the hospital during labor and delivery, Christy is very involved every step of the way. She has a contagious laugh and a spunky personality that our birth moms all can bond with and relate to. As an adoptive parent herself, adoption holds a very special place in her heart and she can relate on every level with both birth parents and adoptive parents. In her free time Christy loves spending time with her daughter, gardening, baking and taking vacations with her family. Christy is an excellent leader for our team at Adoption Choices and is truly one of a kind!! As Executive Director, Christy spends time with the staff, birth parents and adoptive families in order to ensure that the agency is running smoothly. She has placed a huge emphasis on community outreach and programs for birth parents. Christy loves the opportunity to lead the agency into a brighter future.
Ms. Mackenzie has built a successful counseling career over the past 20 years, supporting mothers and families, people of all ages and genders, students, community professionals and fellow clinicians. Liv values a diverse professional focus, including the entrepreneurial life of a sole proprietor, the evaluative process of certifying foster/adoptive homes, the insightful and mindful one-on-one one work with enthusiastic clients, and serving as an advocate for underserved populations. Liv is a Licensed Professional Counselor and holds a BA in Pre-Law and Economics from American University, an MA in Counseling from Adams University and a certificate in Human Resource Management from Villanova University. Away from work you will find Liv spending time in nature, biking to the farmer’s market and adventuring with her family.
Catherine A. Madsen, joined the Adoption Choices family as legal counsel in 2013. Catherine is responsible for providing legal guidance to the Agency, training and updating staff on developments in adoption law and legislation, and program development. Catherine
Virginia Frank is an adoption attorney accredited since 1991 with the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. Ms. Frank is a leader in the field of private adoption and has completed over 4,000 adoptions in her career. Ms. Frank has a law degree from Oklahoma City University and a BA in both Political Science and Communications from the University of Oklahoma.
Cassidie has been with Adoption Choices since 2015, she has her bachelors in Interdisciplinary Affairs with concentrations in both Sociology and Business Management. Cassidie has additional training in Victim Advocacy, foster care and has been working in women’s services for over 10 years. Cassidie has always had a heart for adoption and it was her career dream to work in adoption. She started off doing volunteer work for advocacy programs, adoption organizations and worked in High Risk Maternal Fetal Medicine through the University of Colorado Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Colorado. Cassidie is also blessed to have personally experienced an adoption of her own in 2012, completing her family of five! Cassidie loves what she does as a case worker from initial phone calls, meetings, doctor appointments, interaction with the adoptive families to delivery and counseling. Cassidie has a passion for those in need and strives to help make a difference in the lives of the people she meets. She is a firm believer in being kind, compassionate and open minded in all situations. “Unless you’ve walked in their shoes, there’s no place for judgment. A kind word or compliment can go a long way!” The bittersweet moments in adoption reminds Cassidie each and every time, why she loves what she does!