Single parent adoption in military?

As the adoption process can take months or even years to go through and they require you to have a household for the agency to look at, you need to talk to your boss about it. The BAH w/dependents will not start until you have custody of the child. But with some approval you could get BAH w/o dependents to set up the household.

ETA: Michael is WRONG. There ARE single parents in the military, women who have given birth or adopted AFTER joining or even regained custody of a child after their first enlistment. It was not just because of divorce or death of a spouse. If you had gotten pregnant as a single woman you would NOT be discharged at all, you would be given the option but you would have also been allowed to stay in if you wished as long as you have a FCP.

As a single military member - officer or enlisted - you cannot adopt a child and continue to serve. Your parents cannot be "emergency caretakers" unless they are the actual legal guardians of the child, meaning that THEY adopt the child, not you.

Moving out of single enlisted housing is a moot point since you cannot adopt in the first place.

Single parents who want to enlist are required to give up full legal custody of their child to someone else before they can enlist - so why would they then let a single service member adopt? To the military adopting as a single parent is the same as giving birth as a single parent - forbidden.

The answer is clearly, completely and totally "No." You cannot adopt while on single active duty and if you do not inform your chain of command and try to adopt without consulting with your command (which will tell you "NO") then you will find yourself subject to disciplinary action and possible discharge under circumstances that can affect the rest of your life adversely.

Either get married first or get out of the service - because you are not adopting as a single military member on active duty.

To answer a question you may have already thought of - when a service member gets divorced or widowed on active duty with minor dependents they are allowed to stay on active duty as long as they can file a Family Care Plan showing that their children have alternate caregivers for when they may be deployed.

And, no, you cannot get married, adopt and get divorced or get married, adopt and put a contract out on your spouse.

No...you cannot adopt while single in the military. Clear enough?

You cannot be single, deployable and adopt a child. You'd best wait until either your obligation is up, or you meet a person to share a family with.

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