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Persons Seeking to Adopt

Series: Numbers and Trends

Author(s):   Child Welfare Information Gateway

Year Published:  2005

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Figure 1 presents a bar graph depicting the percent of women ever married, age 18-44, who ever considered adoption, took steps toward adopting, or completed an adoption. It shows 1.3 percent ever completed an adoption; 4 percent ever took concrete steps toward adoption, and 26 percent ever considered adoption. (The source of this data is Chandra et al., 1999)

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Updated on March 1, 2010