How to adopt a child/why is it so expensive?
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It’s so expensive to avoid sick people from taking part in human trafficking
@ashley I mean you would think human traffickers have more money than the average hardworking Joe. Like I’m looking at the price to adopt a kid in my country and it’s 58-66 thousand US dollars… the average monthly payment there is 900$ :D In what world is this normal.
I wish I could give my child to you for an adoption 😔
You're saying that no wonder kids stay in foster care but adoption from foster care costs practically nothing. Private adoptions, which are usually newborn adoptions, are through agencies. International adoptions are also costly but so is immigration in general. Adopting from someone you know would actually cost more than adopting from the public system (foster care) because there would be legal costs. With foster care though, many areas do not take applications from people looking to adopt young children because the demand is so high. Everyone wants a young child and no one wants a child that is 8 or over (or even 4 or older) which is the age most kids are when their parents' rights are terminated. Kids don't stay in the foster care system because it is costly. They stay in the system because people don't want older children, many of whom have disabilities, abuse histories, and fetal drug and alcohol exposure. When there is a child under 4--specially healthy white children--many people will apply.
Start with doing foster care. And do adoption through that.
I’m not sure how you’d go about it. But I know that it can be a lot cheaper if you do like an open adoption or like family to family where you know the g duly and adopt that way. I’ve seen a couple people talks about it but I’m not sure how you’d go about doing it