Pregnant Teens Should Consider Adoption More Often

'Studies show that adopted children have a much better chance of growing up in decent conditions than children raised by unwed teen mothers.

Commentators on the political right and left have argued-sometimes provocatively-that more single teenage women should be encouraged to place their children for adoption. Charles Murray, an academic at the American Enterprise Institute, has suggested that many young welfare mothers are simply unfit to be parents. "A great number of children born to never-married teens are living in utterly dreadful circumstances," Murray says. The view is echoed from the left by Father George Clements, a Chicago priest who started a movement to encourage black church congregants to adopt some of the 180,000 black children languishing in foster care. "You have to bow to reality," he says. "In most of the cases there is no father present, the mother is so often on welfare and not able to take care of herself let alone another human being."
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