What are the outcomes associated with second-parent adoptions?
Second-parent adoptions will decrease many traditional adoption barriers for unmarried couples. This will increase the overall opportunities to adopt children from foster care. Advocates of second-parent adoptions believe that there will be a significant decrease in the number of children in foster care. Since second-parent adoption creates a new family structure, there will be an increase in custody disputes if the new set of parents split up. The increase in custody cases could place more strain on overworked courts. Second-parent adoptions might increase the overall welfare of many children by allowing better benefits for both the parent and the child. The increased benefits include Social Security and child-support payments. With second-parent adoptions if the couple splits up, both parents are expected to continue supporting the child.
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