Two Parents are Better Than None: Whether Two Single, African American Adults--Who Are Not in a Traditional Marriage or a Romantic or Sexual Relationship with Each Other--Should Be Allowed to Jointly Adopt and Co-Parent African American Children

This article proposes an additional adoption model to allow joint adoption and co-parenting by single African Americans who are not in a traditional marriage relationship with each other and not in a romantic or sexual relationship with each other. Under this model, for example, two friends, two sisters, two brothers, a sister and a brother, etc., could jointly adopt and co-parent a child. If some new model such as this one is not devised, many single blacks may hesitate to take on the entire adoption responsibility alone. As a result, many black children will continue to go without any parents. Two parents are better than none