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According to a report released by the National Council for Adoption, 17 percent of the children adopted by US parents in 1996 were born in foreign countries. The number of international adoptions of children under two by US parents is even higher, perhaps one-third of all adoptions of infants. In 1992,only ten percent of children adopted by US parents were foreign born. The report looked at many factors leading to these new trends in adoption. According to the authors, there are two primary reasons for the increasing adoptions of foreign-born children. First, more single mothers in the US are choosing to raise their child rather than put it up for adoption. Second, the US adoption process is complicated and time consuming, which leads many potential parents to avoid the system by adopting abroad. .
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