Pros Of Stranger Adoption

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There are 6.4 million pregnancies in the United States, 3 million are unplanned, and 2 million are unwanted. Those 2 million unwanted pregnancies include teenagers or girls that are in their twenties. Alternatives are offered to the mother of the unwanted child such as an abortion or adoption. About 120,000 children are put up for adoption each year and are adopted by strangers which is also called “stranger adoption”, but some babies are also adopted by relatives. Adoption is an opportunity for a child to have parents and a loving and caring family that can give them their needs and wants. The rate of adoption has increased tremendously since the 1900s. In 1944 only 50,000 adoptions took place in the United States, and in 1970 the highest
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