Celebrities Who Adopted Children as a Single Parent

See Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, Sia, Madonna, Charlize Theron and More Stars Who’ve Adopted Children!

Embracing a kid is a really significant choice and one that can advance the existences of the two grown-ups and youngsters. Be that as it may, not all children are taken on into two-parent homes – as per late figures delivered by the U.S. Branch of Health and Human Services, in excess of 28% of those embraced from child care are taken in by single guardians.

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A significant number of these single guardians have popular countenances – some left on the nurturing venture when they weren’t in a heartfelt connection, others were at first coupled up, then, at that point, split yet concluded they actually needed to seek after life as a parent. Big names from Sheryl Crow to Sandra Bullock and Sia have made families based on their conditions by inviting kids from babies to young people into their homes.

What’s more the result has been genuine – Sharon Stone has referred to bringing up her three took on children, “The incredible honor of my life as” while Diane Keaton has said, “Parenthood was not a urge I was unable to stand up to” in spite of the fact that as a solitary lady, she had at first deferred the method involved with embracing her two children.

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As per the Adoption Network Law Center, two percent of American families have embraced a kid and around 140,000 youngsters are taken on by U.S. families consistently. The reasons individuals embrace are individual, going from encountering barrenness to not tracking down the ideal individual with which to begin a family, and others feel in their souls that reception is the proper thing to do.

Look at a couple of our cherished superstars who embraced kids as single guardians.

Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Crow opened up about her journey to motherhood with Wyatt, 14, and Levi, 11, in an October 2021 episode of the Making Space with Hoda Kotb podcast. “I had the gift of getting a lot of things out of my system before I had my kids, or before I got my kids,” said Crow. “So there wasn’t anything that I felt like I was missing. If I stayed home and something was going on, I just didn’t feel like I was missing anything, that I wanted to be anywhere else, and that’s a gift.”

Crow added that her mom convinced her that she didn’t have to be married to have a family. “You have a family around you who will stand at the altar with you at baptism and say, ‘We are his community, or her community,’” Crow said of that conversation.

“The story I was telling myself limited what I thought I could have, until somebody stepped in and said, ‘Wait a minute, your story doesn’t have to look like your mom and dad’s story,’” she said. “Families look like all different things.”

Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock is raising her adopted kids Louis, 11, and Laila, 8, on her own. The actress initially adopted Louis with her then-husband Jesse James, and decided to raise him as a single mom when she and James divorced in 2010.

Bullock said of her film, The Unforgivable, “If it wasn’t for adoption and foster care, I wouldn’t have my family, so this film really struck a chord in that there are millions upon millions of babies and children on this planet that have no one to love — that have no one to let them know they are the most amazing thing when they walk in a room. There are millions upon millions of adults that wish they could be a parent.”

Bullock has also spoken about the adoption “Let’s all just refer to these kids as ‘our kids.’ Don’t say ‘my adopted child.’ No one calls their kid their ‘IVF child’ or their ‘oh, sh*t, I went to a bar and got knocked-up child.’ Let just say, ‘our children.’”

Charlize Theron

In 2020, actress Charlize Theron reflected on the adoption of her two children, Jackson and August, in an interview with designer Diane von Furstenberg on the podcast InCharge with DVF. “I’m an only child, I didn’t have any siblings,” said Theron. “And my mom has a letter that I wrote her when I was 8 years old, and in the letter I ask her if we could for Christmas go to an orphanage to adopt a brother or sister for me.”

Theron added, “That whole process was incredibly empowering for me as a woman. The fact that I got to choose when I wanted to be a mom…I travel a lot and I see a lot of young girls not have that choice. There is a great power in choosing to be a mother and then doing it when your body, your mind and everything is celebrating all of that.”

Madonna

As a mom to six kids — two biological and three adopted from Malawi — Madonna has come to motherhood in many different ways, including adoption as a single mom. Madonna’s biological kids include Lourdes, 25, and Rocco, 21, and her adopted kids include David, 16, Mercy, 15, and twins Estere and Stelle, 9.

Back in a 2017 Madonna revealed that she received backlash after adopting David in 2008 (“Every newspaper said I kidnapped him,” she said) with her now ex-husband Guy Ritchie. But she had an even harder time bringing Mercy home the following year because by then, she had divorced Ritchie and was a single mom. According to the singer, Malawian officials told her, “I was not capable of raising a child.”

“The way I was treated — that sexist behavior — was ridiculous,” said Madonna. Later, she added, “I’ve had some pretty dark moments, but I’m a survivor.”

Sia

Sia told the Australian TV show The Project that adopting two sons in 2019 was both “painful and rewarding.” The singer added, “I think it’s just scary to have someone say ‘I’ll love you forever’ when you’ve been in 28 different homes your entire life.”

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie and her estranged husband Brad Pitt share Shiloh, 15, and 13-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox (their biological children) and Maddox, 20, Pax, 18, and Zahara, 16, who are adopted.

In 2005, Jolie adopted daughter Zahara from Ethiopia as a single mom.