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Single black women choosing to adopt

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  • More single black women are adopting, adoption official says
  • Single black woman says inability of black men to commit led to adoption decision
  • Single black mother: "It's the best decision I could have made in my life"
  • Pressure to be mother takes emotional toll on black women, some say
updated 1:01 p.m. EDT, Wed July 1, 2009
What's driving more single African-American women to adopt

Marriage and motherhood -- it's the dream that begins in childhood for many women. Yet more African-American women are deciding to adopt instead of waiting for a husband, says Mardie Caldwell, founder of Lifetime Adoption, an adoption referral and support group in Penn Valley, California.

That pressure can cause some African-American women to rush into a marriage with a man they should not partner with, says Kenyatta Morrisey, a 34-year-old mother of three adopted children in Raleigh, North Carolina.