New Research Finds Millions of Women Unaware of Adoption Process and Benefits
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"The United States has an estimated 65 million women who are currently considered to be of childbearing age (15 to 44 years of age). With research showing that growing numbers of young women have little interest in having children, the choices of those women who do give birth take on increasing importance. There are three choices those women can make: give birth and raise the child; give birth and place the child for adoption; or abort the child. The forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case has focused much attention on abortion. But what about adoption? A new research study conducted among women of childbearing age suggests that millions of women who might otherwise consider adoption to be an appealing alternative are unaware of how adoption works. The study, Adoption & Its Competitors, was conducted by George Barna and the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University for The Opt Institute, a non-profit research foundation and think tank dedicated to improving access to and support for private infant adoption, better understanding women’s decision-making in the context of expected pregnancies, and to helping mothers consider adoption as a meaningful option."