Is it true that you have to pay to adopt?

Heather B

In the USA, yes. Because adoption is not a social service for the children - it's a $$$$$ making business/industry and the kids are the commodity.

LaurieDB

You do have to pay large sums of money, usually, if you adopt through an agency or private attorney. They charge very high fees.

However, you can adopt through the Department of Social Services (or its equivalent in your county) for basically nothing. When you do that, you are adopting a child who has no legal family and is living in foster care. These children are in need of families.

When you adopt through foster care, not only do you not have to pay high fees, you may be eligible to receive government monies.

ETA:
I have to wonder about your additional information. Why do you think people should be paid to adopt? If someone wants to be a parent, why she be paid for doing so?

Mom to Foster Children

It depends. If you do a private adoption or an adoption thru an agency -then yes you will have some fees. If you adopt from foster care - it's free.

monkeykitty83

Foster care adoption is low cost or free-- that's because these children really need homes, and many foster children age out of the system without ever finding a permanent adoptive family. These children are unfortunately often overlooked by prospective adoptive parents, and there are not even close to enough families for them.

Private domestic adoption of a newborn or infant generally runs between $20,000 to $35,000+, although obviously this varies depending on agency and area. That's because there are many, many more people who want to adopt babies than there are babies available for adoption. People wait for months or years on waiting lists for infants. These infants will definitely not be left without adoptive homes, and they shouldn't really be seen as in need; even when newborns have to find placements away from their biological families, they are very much wanted by a lot of people.

If you are considering adoption, you should do so because you want and will love that child. Not as some kind of humanitarian project, and not because you want to be rewarded. An adopted child is your child, and you don't get extra brownie points for parenting them. I very much disagree with your suggestion that adoptive parents should be paid. I do think profit needs to be removed from the adoption industry and it should be about finding good homes for children in need, not lining someone's pockets-- but I also think that parents should adopt their children out of love, not out of desire for compensation.

Rainia W

It depends on the type of adoption. If it is being done through social services, then no, you do not have to pay for the adoption. Sometimes you have to pay for the home study or some lawyers fees, but that is it.

If you are going through a private agency, then yes you do have to pay and it can be extremely expensive.

Littlechit

depends. with ours, we had to pay some travel expenses. with our next one, if we get a particular child we're interested in, it should be entirely subsidized (no cost to us)

runner_guy

yes

LindseyTaylor

yes...an adoptive parent does have to pay, alot in fact. tens upon tens of thousands of dollars.

why should the birth parents have to pay? ask any adoptive parent and they would say they would pay anything because its their dream to complete their family.

Foster care adoptions have little to no cost..that is another choice

â™¥Miss Conductâ™¥

Yes, its true and very, very expensive at that. Also theres alot of hoops to jump through, its not easy and they scour you and pretty your whole family's backgrounds. Alot of people adopt from over seas, which I dont agree with, but I guess its easier and less expensive.

LOIUSE

In international adoption you pay. It is free to adopt through the children's aid Society

sammi

yes you have to pay a crapload of money

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