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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]interesting responses.  I saw the paperwork on my own adoption from 1969 with Catholic Services.  Total cost was $1500[/quote]

$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).[/quote]

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.   [/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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