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How do you adopt children?

I am not old enough to have kids but I was just wondering. And it doesn't matter where they are from.

BLW_KAM

There are several ways to adopt children. As mentioned above there is adoption from foster care, domestic (from your own country) adoption through an agency/attorney and international adoption.

Each of these has it's own process, rules & regs. and fees.

Since you're at the very beginning of the learning process, here's a link to a site that gives you an overview of the types of adoptions: http://adopting.adoption.com/

You're never too young to start learning.

Mom to Foster Children

You can go through your local state Health & Human Services and adopt from foster care. These are the children who need homes and adoption from foster care is free.

nomiscats

You go through an adoption agency and it is very expensive. My aunt paid $40,000 when all was said and done.

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