Most say adoptive parents are generous and lucky, but some believe they would have been luckier still to have had their own child. Adopted children, a majority says, are well adjusted and secure, but some think adopted children are insecure, poorly adjusted and more prone to behavioral and academic problems than other children. Lastly, many Americans support birth parents' decisions to place children for adoption, but a notable minority disapproves of decisions to do so, and some even see it as irresponsible or hardhearted. Attitudes toward adoption divide starkly by social group. Less educated Americans are more skeptical about adoption than others.
Blacks are more skeptical than whites.