I wanted to help someone on here. I was wondering if adoption cost a lot of money or do only the adoption parents pay. Is their a lot of work if they still keep their baby, or is it simple.
2006-12-06 04:04:16 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
There are a lot of different ways that adoption can work. My daughter was adopted through a private adoption, without going through an agency, which I personally prefer. But adoption is a great choice regardless of how you do it. With my adoption, I was able to pick the family (I just asked around and found a family looking to adopt-there's more out there than you think) and get to know them before I made the decision. We have an open adoption, which means I still get to see my daughter, and that's something that you have to work out together with the family. As for price, most adoptive families that I know are willing to cover pretty much all the expenses in exchange, but in most cases if you back out of the adoption at the last minute you are responsible for reimbursing the family for the money they spent. As for how complicated it was, I had to see a lawyer when I was about 8 months pregnant to sign some papers, and then a lawyer came to me in the hospital and I signed again. Then at six weeks post partum there was a hearing, but I chose not to attend. Those kind of things differ depending on each states law, but I think that's pretty well how it happened. My daughter's adoption was pretty simple, and has worked out wonderfully for all of us. You can email me if you would like to talk about it more, because I would love to provide you with more info. My email is bigcitygrl2000@yahoo.com, and my name is Becky. Good luck to you with whatever decision you make
2006-12-06 04:10:47 · answer #1 · answered by bigcitygrl2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The adoptive parents sometimes pay expenses for the new mother- which can be thousands of dollars- plus legal fees, if a lawyer helped make the arrangements could add on lots of $$$.
But there are different ways to adopt- private adoptions, thru adoption agencies, thru social service departments (foster kids who become available for adoption), so it's difficult to say what the costs could be, and state laws could affect costs too.
2006-12-06 04:15:21 · answer #2 · answered by GEEGEE 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Private adoptions not only cast an arm and a leg they make you jump thru so many hoops before you get the kid.
This is why people go thru international adoptions. They cost a lot but not as much drama.
Adoptions thru the division of family services are free. You have to take parenting classes and a few other things. The reasons not many people are flocking to DFS. They are sometimes very hard to work with, Many of the children in their care especially young kids are drug exposed. Many of the children have mild to severe behavioral problems that they are NOT going to tell you about. You have to figure that part out on your own. So there aren't a lot of people flocking to them. And I could tell you some horror stories about these kids.
2006-12-06 04:14:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are so many different ways to go about adoption. you need to contact an adoption agency who can go over everything with you.
2006-12-06 04:07:43 · answer #4 · answered by Rebecca O 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋