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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thinking of adoption at some point... and would love to hear from others experiences with the process!
1. Did you already have kids?
2. Did you adopt privately through an agency or through the foster system?
3. How long did the process take?
4. What age was your child(ren) when you adopted?
5. How much did the adoption cost?
6. Anything you learned along the way that would be helpful to someone considering adoption or anything you did differently you would share?)[/quote]

Single mom by choice responding here.

1. no
2. agency for international adoption
3. about 14 months from home-study  to travel  
4. she came home at 7 months -- that was average at the time; the wait is longer now and children to be placed are older; as a single mom I was happy not to have a newborn; I noticed a lot of the single mom adopters at the time were requesting a child 12-24 months 
5. About 22K: travel was the expensive part; but I went a week early to travel though my daughter's country
6. I did not have any of the negative experiences of some posters here.  My daughter and i bonded in about 5 minutes (as she did with her grandparents) ; she is in college with straight As as a Musical Performance major; she has already competed or performed  in 6 countries [/quote]

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