Why is adopting a child internationally so expensive?
November 6, 2009 by Adoption Information and Laws
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Can you answer Sam S’s question about Adoption?:
For example, it costs on average around $17,000-18,000 to adopt a child from china, and that is the least expensive country from which to adopt. Is there any way you can go to the country yourself and do all the paper work yourself without an agency (but with the help of an in country english translator), and not spend so much money?
I have personal reasons for wanting to adopt internationally
Adopting From Foster Care
For example, it costs on average around $17,000-18,000 to adopt a child from china, and that is the least expensive country from which to adopt. Is there any way you can go to the country yourself and do all the paper work yourself without an agency (but with the help of an in country english translator), and not spend so much money?
I have personal reasons for wanting to adopt internationally
Adopting From Foster Care
Adoption Feedback: i dont understand why u would want to adopt a child from a foreign country
adopt one domestically…
Adoption Feedback: Who cares why. I just don’t understand the rationale for adopting abroad when there are so many children in need of a good home right here in the U.S.
Adoption Feedback: Because there are plenty of children in your own country that need your help.
Adoption Feedback: I suppose you have the cost of social workers, interpreters, police checks, international paperwork, etc. Also, poorer countries see someone coming from a rich country and assume everyone from that country is rich so the price goes up. They see child adoption as a lucrative trade and know many folk will be willing to pay up for a child.
I’m not sure if it is legal for you to do things yourself, especially now after all the problems with perverts and child trafficking. This is something you need to ask your social work department or a lawyer who specialises in child adoption. Personally, I think you’re safer going through an agency so if things fall through, you have someone to blame whereas in private adoption you could end up with no money and no child if it turns out to be a big con.