how much did your adoption cost?
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Anonymous
$1500, was probably a lot back then but obviously more reasonable. Adoption now is a business. Very few agencies are reasonably priced. They now have something called the adoption tax credit (but you only get it after you adopt and your taxes qualify you for it) so instead of making it more affordable, the agencies and attorney's justify charging more as you will get the credit back. Adoption is a mess right now. Too many greedy agencies and attorneys and too many desperate families. I am grateful for my child but I would never encourage anyone I knew to place their child for adoption (but of course I'd help them any way I could). |
Anonymous
If the question was "how much did your IVF baby cost?", the amounts in the responses would be similar. Something to consider when the end result is essentially the same thing. |
Anonymous
I'm an adult adoptee who adopted internationally. Who do you think should've paid for housing our child for the year before she was adopted and who shouldve paid for medical costs for monthly doctors' visits? |
Anonymous
| My brothers adoption in 1971 cost $750.00 for a healthy white infant! My mom could not believe we would be looking at around d 30k minimum. |
Anonymous
1969 adoptee here - just for the heck of it I put 1500 into a CPI calculator and in today's dollars it's a little under 10K. I think part of the lower cost was because of more babies being available. Unfortunately (as was the case with my birthmom) a number of these were involuntary surrenders. |
Anonymous
Yup. Or "how much did the ob/gyn cost?" (obviously insurance covers most of those costs) Our daughter was 3 when she came home. Our adoption cost less than we would have spent to house and feed and care for her over those three years. There are absolutely ethical concerns in adoption, and clearly there are some really shady people working in the industry. But I do get frustrated when people feel adoption should be free. Someone needs to be caring for the babies until they are placed for adoption, and someone needs to be paying the social workers who (ideally, at least) are ensuring that children are placed in safe and healthy homes. Clearly, it should be the adoptive parents who pay the brunt of those costs. |
Anonymous
Way back when, Montgomery County used to have a placement program. I think its a balance of who pays. I don't mind paying reasonable costs, but there is nothing reasonable about costs today. The facilitator we used, refused to work with gov't services (even though in the contract it said she would). She offered us a situation with excessive food, housing and other costs for a family of five to live better than we would (with no explanation of how they would maintain it on little income once the adoption was completed). We found that more often than not. If there was no adoption, families would use resources such as food stamps, housing assistance, etc. and those should be used first (but it is easier to get the family to pay than bother applying which can take hours to days). Since we did not have child care costs, our infant/toddler cost were minimal. I would not include housing costs as we had an extra bedroom and had to heat the house anyway, regardless of her being here. So, the only thing was clothing & formula. (we had good health insurance so even though we had high medical needs, those were minimal). |
Anonymous
There are still a lot of involuntary surrenders... look at Utah, especially with birthfathers. Once you place and sign, there is no revocation period too. |
Anonymous
| $13k for everything. Domestic infant adoption. |
Anonymous
| About $22k. Domestic infant adoption. With our agency (Adoptions Together) it was based on income level. Since we were at the top, we paid the max. It was considerably lower at other income levels. |