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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This agency discriminates and I would not recommend. We used them several years ago for our homestudy and felt we were discriminated against. My husband and I are two attorneys in Washington DC but we had school debt and had not acquired a lot of equity yet. Adoptions Together told us they could not support our homestudy until we had more money. We had a great financial support network, not to mention promising future financial security, but promised donations were not sufficient for Adoptions Together (now Pathways for Families). At the same time we were adopting, our friends who happen to be a homosexual couple and in the exact same financial status as we were, were fast tracked with Adoptions Together and told the agency would work with them on their finances. [/quote]
Adoption is not about finding infants for willing adults but about finding parents for children who do not have a family. Its purpose is not to remove a family but to provide one when there is none.
The agency most likely had some reasons to turn you down.

The cost of the adoption and cost of raising a child is only one factor.[/quote]

Did you read the post?[/quote]
Yes
The agency thought they were not a good candidate and declined them knowing they would fail the home study [/quote]

Many agencies turn down people who would be good parents for all kinds of reasons, especially in MD, where they don't have enough children for the demand and they want to focus on specific populations to boost their organization.  It’s often about many other factors and often very bias, racist and much more.[/quote]
You said it yourself: the number of infants available for adoption is much less than the number of people wanting to adopt. 
Are you expecting the agency to push more people into their books knowing that they cannot possibly have a match?[/quote]

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