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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]About 15 years ago, DW and I were trying to adopt.  In hindsight, I am 99% certain, the birth parent was using us to pay her expenses.  What the agency did not tell us was that she had previously kept a baby after agreeing to give it up.

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You can’t agree to give up a baby before birth.  You can only explore the possibility.  [/quote]

Then, you don't take money from someone to pay for your living expenses with the understanding you will place.  If you are exploring the possibility you don't fund it with others money.[/quote]

Why not?  Basically, you are buying a baby and caveat emptor applies.  [/quote]
Not true 
Prospective adoptive parents cannot shower the pregnant girl with money[/quote]

If you give her $1.00, you are buying a child.  [/quote]

Actually it depends on the state.  CA and FL, for example allow very generous living expenses - housing, utilities, cell phone, food, etc. vs. a state like MD doesn't allow for expenses which is why a lot of adoptions don't happen here.  Technically you are not giving her the money directly but paying a huge agency fee and they pay the money or you pay a lower agency fee and all expenses via the agency/facilitator/attorney (or all) who dole out the money.  And, there is no obligation to place so you can pay $20-30K in expenses on top of attorney fees, agency fees, and not get a child.

However, this has nothing to do with OP topic.[/quote]

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