Is the divorce rate for adoptive parents higher due to the stress of (presumed) infertility and the emotional/financial/social issues of adoption? Is it lower because such families have to have all kinds of home and background checks to determine fitness and stability? Is it a wash between the two?
I did a cursory academic journal search and didn’t find anything, but I might have been using the wrong search terms.
My wife and I have adopted twice and are not infertile. While I think that is a common thing to lead folks to adopt, it is far from something we can assume.
Thanks for the clarification, Mahaloth. My friends and family who have adopted have done so due to biological reproductive issues—good to be reminded that that’s not always the case.
I have no cites to back this up, but my husband and I have undergone fertility treatments and are in the process of getting approval to adopt through the public system. Both options require a lot of training and courses (in this province - Alberta). In both infertility and adoption, they told us the divorce rates are higher then the general population (due to stress), which is why we have to undergo psychological evaluations, as individuals and as a couple. We were never told what the actual divorce rates are.