black in america 2: single black women choosing to adopt


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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5a7d5a7c-22d3-401b-839f-7fee1378881f/EB0B7C74-4014-4661-8BC4-3636DD7437C6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/01/bia.single.black.women.adopt/index.html" href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/01/bia.single.black.women.adopt/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cnn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/01/bia.single.black.women.adopt/index.html"><DIV class="cnnWCBoxContent"><A name="ContentArea"></A><DIV class="cnnSnapShotHeader" id="cnnBrandingBanner"><DIV><A href="http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/black.in.america/"><IMG height="35" border="0" width="984" alt="" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/06/01/banner.jpg" /></A></DIV></DIV><DIV id="cnnHeaderLeftCol"><H1>  Single black women choosing to adopt</H1></DIV><DIV id="cnnHeaderRightCol"><UL><LI class="cnnHiliteHeader">Story Highlights</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> More single black women are adopting, adoption official says<BR /> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Single black woman says inability of black men to commit led to adoption decision<BR /> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Single black mother: "It's the best decision I could have made in my life"<BR /> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Pressure to be mother takes emotional toll on black women, some say<BR /> </LI></UL></DIV><DIV class="clear"></DIV><DIV id="cnnSnapShotBottom"><DIV id="cnnSnapShotBottomLeft"><DIV id="cnnSnapShotTimeStamp"><DIV class="cnnGryTmeStmp">updated 1:01 p.m. EDT, Wed July 1, 2009</DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV id="cnnSnapShotBottomRight"><UL class="cnnNextStory"><LI class="cnnNextStory" id="cnnNextStoryCSI"><A href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/07/02/tf.hateful.parents/index.html?iref=nextin">Next Article in Living »</A></LI><DIV id="csiIframeObjscsi3"></DIV></UL></DIV><DIV class="clear"></DIV></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/01/bia.single.black.women.adopt/index.html"><B>What's driving more single African-American women to adopt</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/01/bia.single.black.women.adopt/index.html"><P>   Marriage and motherhood -- it's the dream that begins in childhood for many women. Yet more <A class="cnnInlineTopic" href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/african_american_issues">African-American</A> 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.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/01/bia.single.black.women.adopt/index.html"><P> 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.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EB0B7C74-4014-4661-8BC4-3636DD7437C6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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