Is there any way to adopt a healthy infant that doesn't cost insane amounts of money? (not foster care)?

Crucio

Itâ€™s expensive because itâ€™s all about supply and demand and people are willing to pay that hefty price. I think its crazy myself I think there should be cap that no one should have to pay over a certain amount for any adoption. Why the heck should someone have to pay thousands of dollars to give a home and family to a child/baby that needs it? All adoptions should be free or at least low cost. Unfortunately people are greedy for money.

You could contact FCS and tell them youâ€™re solely looking to adopt from them. Private adoption is one of the most costly forms of adoption. My aunt and uncle did that and when it was all said and done they spent around 50 to 60 grand. You could also try the waiting child list. These are children whose bioparents rights have already been terminated or willing given up and they are available for adoption.

wifeandmom

Well, what happened to paying your cousin to put her eggs in your mother's womb? That seemed like a pretty bright idea to me.

You are right, I just don't think foster care is for you. You want a perfect little baby that looks like you with no disabilities or baggage. But do you realize that we all have something wrong with us? Whether you buy a black market baby, have one through your mother, or somehow have one of your own, they will have issues. We all do! You want to go to med school, right? Well, having a baby through med school would be very hard. However, if you get to be a doctor, you can then afford the $20,000 to adopt a baby.

Just my musings.

The brain

You are not informed properly about foster care.
I suggest you investigate it more thoroughly because there are many children who will not be going back to their birth parents that are available for adoption, as Randy explained.

Otherwise, you are SOL, if you can't come up with $15,000+.

ETA:
You are only a senior in highschool? What are you thinking. Goto school, educate yourself and then worry about children. Children require time, energy, attention, love, caring, and money. Also, you seem rather self-absorbed right now, which is normal for a teenager, but your CAN NOT be self-absorbed when you have children. They are #1 priority.

anastasia beaverhausen-the real1

not really.

jessica300

the more you want, the more you pay.

Serenity71

Try the British/Aust system... you don't have a choice ALL local adoptions are done through foster care. No private agencies charging exuberant fee's etc... (The only other agencies are Centre care and Bernardo's and they are regulated to fit in with government run. They charge the same fee's etc...legal costs, and assessments)

Gaia Raain

You want to purchase human flesh that isn't "damaged" as you call it, then you're gonna have to pay up.

Not Adopted

There's someone on here looking to give up her baby. She might negotiate a discount with you.

Laurel J

Nope. You can't always get what you want. The world doesn't owe you a guaranteed-to-stay-yours newborn.

Randy B

I suggest you do a bit more checking into adoption through foster care.

Foster parents take children into their homes and it's those foster children that can (hopefully) be going back to their families once things are to the point where they can go back.

Those that can't go back, those children awaiting adoption, are still in "foster care" in that they are available for adoption and since there are no orphanages in most areas they have to live somewhere. They live in foster homes until such time as they are adopted. They already have TPR done in most cases, or it's well in the works. They won't be going anywhere except from foster home to foster home until someone such as yourself comes forward to adopt.

My area, as do many others, have a third program, a foster to adopt program, where children who are very likely to have TPR done are placed. These children are pre-matched with foster parents who are also approved as their future adoptive parents. At least in my area these are children who, based upon their parents past track records, have a very high likelihood of staying in foster care and going for adoption. In this way we are pre-positioned to shift from their foster parents to their "forever parents" once the system plays out. There is always a risk they could go back and if thats what best for the child then so be it.

If you don't want to take the legal risk associated with foster to adopt, then go the regular adoption from foster care route. Either way, you won't know more till you call the Department in your local area and ask to speak to an intake worker or find out when the next info session is. Adoptions through foster care are free in most areas or next to free in the rest. My youngest was 4 days old and perfectly healthy when we received her. We were willing to accept certain issues in a child after carefully considering our family situations. Any adoptive parent/family does the same.

Once you finish high school, give a call and at least learn more before excluding the possibilities of adoption through foster care. There are children of all ages, races, genders, sizes....just waiting for good homes.

azroadrunner05

Well when you consider that just having a baby delivered in a hospital where I live is $7,000 minimum (for a perfect no complications healthy baby), then you look at 9 months of doctor appointments before hand, and an agency finding the mother willing to give her child away and putting her together with someone who wants her baby. Really $20,000 isn't all that bad.

Love being a mother

Can you not have a baby? I think when you really want a baby you will go to the end of the earth an pay anything an help any baby that crosses your path. I think its really selfish. It cost money to have a baby. Someone has to fit the bill.

what the french toast?

you can try connecting with a birth mother who is not with an agency, or who is willing to talk with you, i suggest getting an attourney tho. im looking to place my child for adoption and have had many couples that are not with an agency want to adopt my child. but its a little harder this way, because most birth mothers want a back ground check, and they want to know that you own a house are married and make a lot of money so their child will be taken care of.

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