Single black women choosing to adopt
CNN
(CNN) -- Wendy Duren thought she did everything right.
She broke off relationships with men who didn't want to settle down. She refused to get pregnant out of wedlock. She prayed for a child.
Duren's yearning for motherhood was so palpable that her former fiancé once offered to father a child with her. But he warned her that he wasn't ready for marriage.
"I get bored in relationships after a couple of years," he told her, she recalls.
Those events could have caused some women to give up their dreams of motherhood. But Duren, a pharmaceutical saleswoman, didn't need a man to be a mom. At 37 years old, she decided to adopt.
"It's the best decision I could have made in my life," Duren says, two years later. She's now the mother of Madison, a 1-year-old daughter she raises in Canton, Michigan.
"People say I have never seen you so happy," she says, "but it's also the hardest thing I've ever done."
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2 comments:
Well, I"m not black, but I can certainly relate to being a professional woman who has not found the right man yet, and is no longer willing to wait to be a mother.
I think the draught on men spans many races unfortunately.... perhpas for different reasons, but they still aren't available.
Great article. And I think Adopting1Soon is right - the problem crosses racial lines.
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