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adjl posted...

Though it is worth noting that even if no formal policies exist to disfavour single men, I expect they do still get discriminated against more subjectively, due to the aforementioned gender norms/expectations/stereotypes.

Well, as mentioned, if it's an open adoption (i.e. the birth parents are still in the picture and are not prohibited from contact with their children due to something like a history of abuse) - and that's most of them - the birth parents ultimately get to decide which family to place their children with and, yes, single men don't typically fare well in those cases.

So yes, the system does still work against single men, just not on an official level. And, of course, even if the open adoption route doesn't work, single men are still considered just as viable as prospective parents for children who are wards of the state and/or whose birth parents are not in the picture anymore.