2007-03-04 16:55:42 · 28 answers · asked by sara 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
Forget it! I raised my kids! I have cats now, they are a LOT less trouble! I love my cats! My cats love me too! Kids don't like me and I don't like them! I expect that to change when I have my first grandchild, however! Cats do not sass, play hookie, create their own "non-profit organizations" pretending to be a charity to make money! (My 7 year old did this one time and collected money around the neighborhood we ended up having to take back!) No, cats are a lot easier, less costly, more loyal, better company! I would run away from home if there were 10 kids waiting for me there!
2007-03-04 18:33:40 · answer #1 · answered by Marie 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The money shouldn't be why you are adopting the child. Do you have the facilities it takes to care for such a large number of kids, people to help you with them, a love for them and not the money, the knowledge of how to raise a good kid (no half a ss parenting that causes brats and bad kids). There are alot of reasons to adopt a child but for the money isn't one of them. Personally I think that to adopt that many kids is going to take away a lot of things from the child that they need as they are growing up such as the love and personal time from a parent, the privacy a child needs to cool off, things that a child can have as his own, etc. I admit that fifty years or more ago that people had ten or fifteen kids but I doubt they were getting paid for it or it was easy for them to deal with, if mom died in child birth many of the kids may have been given to other families. If it is all about the money don't do it.
2007-03-05 05:11:11 · answer #2 · answered by MOMMY585 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The choice to adopt shouldn't be based on how much money you would receive. Plus, why would you want to adopt 10 kids? Anyone who thinks that they can adopt 10 kids and give them the necessary attention and help they need is crazy. Can you help 10 kids with homework every night? Can you drive them to soccer and baseball lessons or ballet classes or tutoring or whatever else they may need? Would you make 3 to 5 kids share a room? Life would be chaotic and I don't think it would be in the best interest of the children (unless they were all siblings that you were trying to keep together). Money would be your motivation, not what's in the children's best interests.
2007-03-05 05:10:07 · answer #3 · answered by Swim Mom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huh? 100 barely buys their groceries, let alone their shoes, clothing, school supplies, not to mention the extras. Taking in children should have nothing to do with the money, although even if it's a little bit helps. Children need love, stability, security, before all else. Give me a home big enough for them, and somehow, I'll find the money. I could no more turn my back on a needy child than I could a stray ,starving, kitten. And it wouldn't even occur to me to ask, where am I gonna come up with the money to take care of this kitten? But children need more room than a kitten. So yeah, I would need a bigger house. Hard to fit 10 kids in a two bedroom home, no matter how much or how little they give me towards them.
Hey Braille, I'm really curious what it is you do that you make $1,000 a day - or shouldn't I ask? And why was it important for you to bring that point up?
2007-03-05 01:13:53 · answer #4 · answered by amiaskan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you realize what it takes to raise 10 children???? If you are only adopting these kids for the money, FIND A BETTER HOBBY. These children probably already have enough detachment issues, let alone someone only wanting them for money. Besides, it takes alot more than $100 a week to raise a CHILD. Children need love, support, and trust are you really willing to give up every second of every day to give that to each and every one of them?
2007-03-05 01:31:49 · answer #5 · answered by the_babyangel 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
$100 a week does not even begin to cover the cost of raising your own kids let alone adopted ones. Adoption is a great institution do not get me wrong but kids who are up for adoption tend to have emotional, physical and health problems brought on from their biological parents. So no I would not. I would only adopt children if I knew I had the love and resources to take care of them on my own without relying on a govt. handout.
2007-03-05 01:02:03 · answer #6 · answered by Jayson Kane 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
only if you live in a shoe! if you don't, it'll be a nightmare 24/7. besides, you cant support ten kids on a grand a week. two, maybe three, but ten is nothing more than idiocy. when you break it down to hourly wages, its less than $0.59 per kid per hour for each week of 168 hours which is the amount that you collect for ten kids per week , that is $1000 per week. with such a high income, what will you be feeding them? bread and water three times a day?
just remember, that's about all you'll be able to afford!
2007-03-05 01:13:00 · answer #7 · answered by de bossy one 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
100 a week is no where near enough. Maybe 250 to 300 a week, then yes!
One kid per week would cost at lest $250
Food, water, household bills.
Then the clothes, spending money.
Running them all over town.
Gas money.
2007-03-05 04:36:41 · answer #8 · answered by dirtmojo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Cinci O, today are 2 people on trial for keeping a little boy named Marcus Fisel along with some other kids needing foster homes. They killed Marcus by wrapping him up in a blanklet with tape around his hands and feet and the rug and putting him in a closet laying in a bassinet with tape over his mouth. They (the foster parents ) left to go to a family reunion 2 county's away for 2 days and when they returned he was dead( middle of August,90+degrees) They kept foster kids for the money but didn't want to be bothered with a 3 yr old rambuntious young boy at a family reunion. So I think I will report you to Children's services in your state / county so that you won't get any foster kids to take care of "Just for the money"
2007-03-05 01:18:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A) Shouldn't be about the money
B) 100 bucks a week doesn't cover a kid
2007-03-05 01:00:47 · answer #10 · answered by tcharnisch 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋