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Adoption Q and Price Tags on Babies
There is a woman on E08 who has an adoption consultation blog in her sig. I was just looking at it and she has listings of babies that need adoptions, and next to each child, there is a "fee." Each child has a different price. This caught my eye:
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Sept. 10 Situations
1.) *NEW* African-American Boy, 12/14/08, $16K
2.) *NEW* African-American Unk Gender, Nov, $16K
3.) *NEW* African-American Boy, 10/22/08, $16K
4.) *NEW* Caucasian Girl, 9/24/08, $30.5K
5.) *NEW* African-American, Unk Gender, 11/14/08, $16K
Please contact me at *********@christianadoptionconsultants.com for more info! Many of the situations posted below are also still available!
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Adoption agencies don't actually charge more for white baby girls do they? If so, how is this remotely acceptable?! Am I missing something?
Re: Adoption Q and Price Tags on Babies
Very good points BM. It still seems off putting that children have different fees based on skin color, good intentions notwithstanding.
And about those fees, why are they so high? Where does the money go?
I really don't know anything about adoption, so if I have said something offensive, my apologies.
Advertising reaches those that can pay more. Welcome to the joys of being infertile. No matter how we slice it, to have a newborn baby- either through adoption, IVF (which has failed for us 4 times), or donor eggs, we're looking at $25-40K for what everyone else seems to get free. It BLOWS. But I'm not bitter. Except I am.
I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.
In addition, adoptive parents in the U.S. usually pay all medical costs associated with the baby, including of the mother's pre-natal care and medical costs. ?
?That said, I'm pretty sure that the adoption of a young child from Haiti is around $10k.?
There are probably more couples than healthy caucasian newborns, but for all other newborns that is not necessarily the case. There are not a wealth of couples willing to take on minority children, children with special needs, etc.