What is the cheapest way to adopt a baby???

heather f

My husband and i have adopted 3 children through the foster care system and 2 through our state adoption program. We never had to pay a cent. If foster care is not something u want to pursue contact your local department of human services and tell them u would like to talk to someone about adoption only. they will be very helpful b/c right now there are a ton of kids waiting to be adopted through the state. In Oklahoma, where i'm from, there is something like 8,000 kids in foster care or group homes who are ready to be adopted. it took us a total of 4 months from the time we filled out our application to the time we got our first kids. so it can be a lot faster than going through a private agency.

Don't let ignorant people get u down b/c u don't want to pay thousands of dollars to give away ur love. i would much rather spend that money on my new family!!!

Good Luck!!!

Gabby_Gabby_Purrsalot

Try foster care. Sometimes, they ask you to adopt your foster children, and sometimes, they're pretty young.

Lillie

I am sorry you are so "desparate". To me, that sounds kinda red-flaggish.

Have you ever researched the impacts of adoption on the adoptee? We do grow up to be real people, you know, and I'm pretty certain that if my aparents had "Shopped Around For The Lowest Price" I would feel pretty much like a...

Commodity.

Yeah.

If you're looking for a good sale on shoes, I can point you in the right direction. But looking for a "deal" on a human life?

How are you going to afford to raise the child, if you can't even afford to "get" it?

Why don't you do foster care for kids in need? Or become a Mentor or "Big Brother/Sister" to kids in need? There are more ways than adopting to show a child love and care.

grapesgum

Foster care. Most of the children are older, but some infants are placed through fostering if you are willing to foster a baby whose availability is not certain at birth.

You need to be very careful about soliciting for a child on public forums. You are making yourself very vulnerable to emotional and financial scams. Also, if you do not seek the advice of an attorney and take care of all of the legalities, you are putting yourself at risk to lose the child down the road if the parents change their mind. Just be careful.

Crucio

The cheapest way to adopt a child is likley through the foster care system. However youâ€™re more likely to end up with an older child and not an infant. Say a kid thatâ€™s maybe over a year old sometimes even already in grade school. Thatâ€™s not to say that one couldnâ€™t adopt an infant out of FC but your just more likley to end up with an older child.

Even if you came upon someone online who wanted to give you their birthchild, youâ€™d still have to go through the adoption process of paper work etc. Youâ€™d likely have to hire an attorney and that would probably fall under Private adoption which is one of the most costly forms of adoption . They couldnâ€™t just hand you over the baby and that be that, in fact theyâ€™d want to know some things about you. If you canâ€™t afford an adoption they may be concerned if you could even financial provide for the child, children are not cheap.

As far what the above poster said, not all birthparents seek open or semi open adoption. Do you see it more nowadays? Yes. However from what I have read very few states actual enforce these â€˜openâ€™ adoptions.. What it really comes down to is if you donâ€™t want to be involved in an open adoption then donâ€™t be because there are plenty of birthparents who donâ€™t go that route. The poster makes it seem you have to be overly rich to adopt this is also not true. Grant it if youâ€™re living in poverty their not going to give you a child, but if you can at least provide the essentials

ghetto_princess283

I'm not sure, but don't feel bad for asking the cheapest way. I come from a pretty poor family. No one should feel bad or like they shouldn't have children because they have limited money. I wish you luck on adopting the little girl.

pookiesmom

Foster to adopt although it comes with risks..but then any type of adoption does.

Everyone is going to suggest foster care, and I am no different.

Crystal

Through the foster care system. If you are willing to take a risk it is definitely possible to adopt infants that way. We became foster parents 1 1/2 years ago and we have already taken in 2 newborns straight from the hospital. Our first foster child was up for adoption by 2 months of age and the second is currently in the process. I also have a friend who adopted her 3 children as newborns through foster care. So there are infants. Good luck!

scorpio_queen_2003

i would foster a child with a view to adotion. that way you would also receive financial assistance until the adoption is complete as well. i was adopted into a family with little money,but as long as there is love and laughter in the home,thats all that matters!

Ripsi W

I have to say, out of all the appalling qeustions on this site about adoption....yours is by far the worst! "Cheap". what the Hell is wrong with our society these days, Like seriously, grow up woman, "Cheap". It shouldn't matter "How much it would cost" to adopt a child. It just matters on if Love and Care as you said above is xactly what you plan on giving the child. I would know. I'm adopted, and Hearing or reading what you said is soo wrong in soo many ways. It's not right. I've been adopted 3 times in the 6 years, I can tell you one thing if you don't lan on supporting the child with his needs and some of his wants then you shouldn't adopt, you have to be able to support him/her any way you can. With that said, Good Luck on w/e it is you do.

in COGNITO *

well said..spirit_shurtugal

I thought I was going the "cheap" route with our son and I couldn't have been more wrong. We did a private adoption expecting to pay less than $10,000 and ended up paying $50,000 (our entire life savings)..... I wouldn't trade him for the world and being bale to have him in our lives was worth 100 time that.

Also I consider myself "middle Class" I only make about $69,000 a year an we adopted. The woman doing my home study said that she'd done homestudies for family who as a whole make laess that half of that. It's not about what you make, but how you manage what you have and how that will affect you family.

Good luck !

Oh yeah, BTW don't feel bad about not knowing the lingo.... We've ALL been guilty of it and you learn what's appropriate and what's not you just need to educate yourself before persuing adoption.

Gershom

Whoever says children aren't commodities is full of poo!! This thread is disturbing to say the least. Yes, nobody should be kept from parenting because they don't have alot of money, but sadly the American society talks young mothers into surrendering their children EVERY DAY because they don't have alot of money. Children are adopted internationally every day because their families were victims of poverty. The American sense of entitlement is mind boggling really.

"i always dreamed of having a child, now that I can't naturally, i want the cheapest, fastest way of getting one, give me yours I'M DESPERATE" "the only chance you have of getting one fast is to have someone in your family give it to you"

STOP TALKING ABOUT CHILDREN LIKE THIS!! ITS INSULTING to the very child that could come into your home.

Katherine W

The only way cheaper than foster care is if you have a family member who ends up pregnant and you get the kid. However, that's probably not likely to happen, or you would not be here.

Heather B

Yuk. How dare you. What is the world coming to when people are soliciting to trade in human lives over the internet. No Court should approve any adoption that has been procured in this manner

Adoption should be a last resort and for the benefit of a child in need. Unfortunately it appears adoption has turned into a business of needy people helping themselves to what they feel they are entitled to - someone elses child

Get a puppy

Adoptionissadnsick

When you say, "Or maybe any one wants to give up their child for adoption??? " Are you soliciting children?

replusive.

If you are sooooo worried about the price of humans, you can't afford one. Maybe you could consider adopting a furry friend from your local shelter that's good for "fun family". Desperation is not an attractive quaility for raising other's children.

Annie C

private adoption through a lawyer, but it's risky because you get the baby before the mother gives up her rights. My 1st child (agency)was $5,000, 2nd private family through lawyer was $500.

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