Why is adoption so expensive? Where does the money come from? Where does it go to? What is it for? Agency websites state that domestic infant adoption in the United States can cost an adoptive parent(s) $12,000 to $30,000. I have heard more at adoption discussion forums, up to $50,000. This is easy information to verify if you google adoption agencies and check price lists.
Why the disparity in costs for infant adoptions? The agency websites state it depends on the circumstance of the adoption: this means the financial needs of the expectant mother, from what I can discern. Medical and housing costs are sometimes paid to the adoption agency by the prospective adoptive parents with the intention of supporting an expectant mother considering relinquishment.
While initially, it seems to make good sense for the expectant mother to have medical care financed, and why not by the people who will parent the child she carries, it becomes less of a benevolent gift when realizing Medicaid is availabe for a pregnant woman who has no insurance. The taxpayer is supporting the medical needs of the expectant mothers. Why, then, are prospective adoptive couples paying for medical care? (And the idea that good medical care isn't available with Medicaid is false. My own excellent and carefully chosen physician is a Medicaid provider, so I know this is a logical fallacy, in most cases, to claim the care isn't available without private payment.)
Why do the adoption agencies then file for Medicaid benefits for the expectant mothers after receiving medical payments from prospective adoptive families? Why is this allowed if there are no outstanding medical bills and an itemized receipt for adoptive families that include medical care for the pregnant mother?
Not only is the taxpayer funding the medical care for expectant women, which I am not arguing is a problem, but the taxpayer is funding the adoptive family's growth via tax credits. Employers sometimes provide adoption money as well.
This money trail is puzzling. The adoption agencies, which are nonprofit (???), are paid twice for medical expenses for the expectant mother, the adopting family is given government tax credits. Taxpayers are, in fact, paying for the adoption in many ways.
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So true, researcher...
For a more in depth look at this issue I suggest THE STORK MARKET: America's Multi-Billion Dollar Unregulated Adoption Industry.
I strongly suggest a link to the in-depth research into the very subject you are blogging about. While the book is available on Amazon, it is available at a reduced fee directly from the publisher at:
www.AdvocatePublications.com
Everyone should get one for themselves, one for their local library and one for their legislator and let everyone understand and begin to DEBUNK the myths of adoption's "benevolence" and bets interest of children!
You might also link to:
FamilyPreservation.blogspot.com
and Origins-USA.org both of which focus on exposing the truth and CHANGING the status quo "business as usual" in baby brokering for profit, advocating for mothers rights and keeping families together.
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