for multiple adoption professionals, and then attempt to screen themselves. adoption agencies usually coordinate advertising for adoptive families using large networks and professional media services. they work with a large pool of pregnant women considering adoption and can match them to parents based on both parties. preferences such as the amount of contact that they like to share after the placement. working with an experienced agency can also help to lower the risk of adoption fraud. as adoption agencies carefully screen expense, the mothers and gauge their commitment and sincerity before matching them. some will also provide financial protection in the case of adoption fraud. now the process of adoption typically involves a series of steps, starting with a decision to adopt followed by home studies, paper work background checks, and finally waiting periods. this process is to ensure a safe and nurturing environment for the child, balancing the needs of both the adoptive family and the child. when working with

a private agency or an attorney, a major expense, and the adoption process goes toward matching with a birth mother. these consulting and advertising costs can range between $3000.00 to $7000.00. then you have to pay for the medical bills of the birth mother, which can range between $6.00 to $8000.00. and afterwards there's a home study. a home study is when the prospective parents and their family members are checked out to make sure that they would provide a safe and loving place for a child. it requires you to produce documents, including financial statements, employment records, and letters from your doctor about your latest physical. you also have to do background checks and interviews, and these home studies can range from 2000 to $4000.00. this step also includes education and training through books and online courses, which can range from a $100.00 to $600.00. in the u. s. a social worker business, the family multiple times over a 6 month period after the child has been placed in the home fees for these polls.

placement reporting can range from $1500.00 to $2000.00. legal fees are also a half the burden in adoption. as this includes terminating the rights of the birth parent, court filings negotiating, the birth mothers expenses, and finalizing the adoption after the post placement reporting period. in total domestic adoption costs can range anywhere between $30000.00 to $60000.00 if you adopt through an agency. it is slightly less expensive to pursue and independent adoption, which will cost between $25000.00 to $45000.00. and now today we're joined by author, mira, arrive in to now mirror. what advice would you give to families who are just starting the adoption process and what challenges might they anticipate? a lot of challenges. parenting is a challenge. adoption is like 10 layers of challenge on top of the normal

challenge of parenting. um, but what i would suggest is read, read, read. there are tons of books and you can get them at your library. you don't have to buy them. i have a reading list of articles that i'm going to try and submit somehow through this uh through this electronics here. um, but or anybody could email me, ask do would for a reading list, but you really have, there's a lot to learn about adoption. there are so many different types of adoption. if you're talking about people from where i am here in the united states adopting, there are 2 major types of adoption is domestic adoption within the country watch, but this is really true of any one, i suppose. domestic adoption is, was in the same country. and international adoption or trans national

adoption is adopting a child from another country. and that adds yet more layers of challenges as does trans, racial adoption. so, you really gotta read up on this stuff. it's not like going out and buying a car where you might want to read up on a, you know, reviews of the different cars and what their safety records are and what mileage they get. but this is like a 1000 times more complicated than that, because at 1st of all, if you're talking about human beings, you're talking about bringing a vulnerable child into your home when you adopt and so you cannot be too careful and you cannot be too over knowledgeable

you can't read too much because it is just such a myriad of, of different types of adoption, even within domestic there's open adoption and closed. adoption is semi open and international varies totally depending on what country you're adopting from. adoption also comes with a significant financial commitment. what resources are available to alleviate the financial burden of adoption? well, see, i personally would consider that the least important issue because if finances is a real big issue for somebody, maybe they shouldn't consider adoption. it is going to be way more expensive than having a baby i i, i don't actually, i haven't looked up the recent statistics, but of course it is a big difference there. whether you have

a health insurance or not. if you're paying for it out of pocket, it might be similar. adopting a baby. a domestic adoption in the united states runs approximately $40.00 to $50000.00 and up. international adoptions you get on top of all of that. you have to weigh you and your travel to the country. they're not going to deliver the baby to you. you have to travel there and preferably, spend some time with the child that you're thinking of adopting and see how we fits in with your family. so yeah, and the expenses to me. yeah, it is. it's very, very expensive and you shouldn't go into it unless you think you can handle it. but i think there were so many more important issues. i think that families going into this have to look into their own space emotionally,

if they went through infertility, or if they went through multiple miscarriages with which a high percentage of adopters have been there, going into it with these scores and this hurt and they're looking for a new baby to make that a little better and that's kind of a unfair burden to place on a child to make your hurts better. you need to deal with those hurts yourself 1st and you need to deal with the fact that no matter how much you love this baby, it's not. it's not a baby that was born to you. and if you have any visions in your head of what your baby might have looked like, or might have behaved like, you may wind up very disappointed because it's going to be very different. it's not going to be the same. and as the children get older, if they have any um,

normal teenage problems whatsoever, adoptive parents often get very, very scared and think god knows what this child inherited is if the child is acting out in a very moines away with the adoptive parent can freak out and think are they going to become drug addicts? because their birth stay emily with drug addicts or just because we don't know what the family was. you know, it's, this is sarah and uncle joe have a baby in the baby at in his teen years. starts acting out. everyone says oh yeah, well of course look. good uncle joe was like when he was a teenager, you have a basis for comparison. but when you're adopting a stranger, which is what you're doing, whether it's domestic or transnational, when you're adopting a stranger, you have nothing to draw on except fear of what might be. thank you so much more on

the, please stick around to. we have author, mira arrive and who will stay with us right here after the break. and when we come back, we'll discuss what factors make adoption more costly and complicated. stay tuned for all the details. the,

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is because you don't have to deal with visas, immigration international, airfare, hotels abroad, and other costs related to international adoptions if you adopt domestically. but that being said, china has been a popular choice for many adoptive parents in the past. due to its relatively lower adoption costs in columbia is also another country where adoption costs tend to be more affordable compared to other nations. ukraine is also an attractive option for adoptive parents. as a country offers a relatively streamlined adoption process, and the costs involved are more affordable than in other european countries. so it is usually cheaper for a us citizen to adopt domestically from the us than from abroad. but there are instances where adopting domestically can be more expensive. these costs can very significantly, depending on factors such as the type of adoption, if it's private or through an agency legal fees. birth mother expenses, hospital bills and more. on average,

international adoptions can cost anywhere from $20000.00 to $50000.00. however, certain countries may have lower or higher associated costs depending on the specific requirements other adoption process. typical expenses include agency fees, legal costs, home study fees, and sometimes travel expenses for international adoptions. but adoption doesn't just and when you're placed with your adoptive family, the process of adoption is a lifelong one for everyone involved and everyone's experience is unique. while adoption is mostly positive experience for many, some people have experienced negative effects of adoption on children. for some adoption affects, the child mental and emotional health negatively possible. psychological effects of adoption include, struggles with low self esteem, identity issues or feeling unsure of where they fit in difficulty for me. emotional attachments, and

a sense of loss related to their 1st family. one of the biggest problems faced by adopted adults is the lack of information available enclosed adoptions. there's a lack of medical or social history and making it difficult for these adopt these and their children to diagnose health problems with no knowledge of where they inherited some genetic, physical or personality traits and no answers about why they were placed for adoption, and no information about their birth family. so for this and more, let's bring in again, author, mira, right? a so mirror. are there any heading costs that families might overlook when budgeting for an adoption, hidden course in domestic adoption? like i said, if you're going to be financing the birth some of the through, you know, she might already have a baby, it might be a mother who's, you know, to her 2nd or 3rd baby. and so then it's not a question, but yet the, the usual method is supporting an expectant mother. and that's the limit

there is your limit on what you can afford and, and, and to be careful not to be taken advantage of. is that a hidden something that they need to watch as well? no, they would know that ahead of time that they would probably want to would be expected to finance the the mother's pregnancy. because 99 percent of the time mothers are giving up babies because they cannot afford to raise another child and they cannot afford to have this baby. so they asked what, you know, they need some financial agents and, and support from you and, or from the whatever government sources they can get it hidden costs. i think there's more in trans national adoption because i think people don't realize how long they may have to stay in the country that they're going to to pick up the child. it might not be. zip sap. 123. you get to watch the plane,

go to the agency and they hand you a baby. some money i read all the time. about adoptive parents that stopped in one country or another, waiting for the approvals for everything to go through the course. they're trying to be more careful now. they used to be so much corruption. i mean, there still is, but they used to be corruption to the point that they would pick up a woman in a supermarket and say, come with me, i want you to sign these papers and she has nothing to do with pregnancy or adoption. but she signs off the cheese with mother and she's giving permission for her baby to be adopted. and this used to happen regularly in guatemala and other places. so now they are trying to be more careful. and how do government policies and subsidies differ between countries when it comes to supporting adoptive families financially? here in the states, they would get

a subsidy. if the child had some special needs, that would be either a domestic or an international adoption. once a doctor would verify that the child has some learning disability or physical disabilities, they are entitled to a subsidized adoption. so that how much it is i couldn't tell you what changes year to year and state to state of so they don't pay the chest to look into it. if they're adopting internationally, a big mistake that a lot of the doctors make is they think when they bring this baby home or this child home. and if they've gone through all the paperwork and the adoption is all signed, sealed, and delivered. and they went to court and the child as they are, as they assume that that child is now with american citizen. it's not. and unfortunately, no one along the line is telling them this. i need now it's become

a big issue. so i would assume that more support groups are aware of this and are telling this to people. but a lot of these adoptive parents are finding out that they are the children that are adults now are at risk of being deported to a country that they've never lived in. don't speak the language, i have no way of earning a living there. and they are, but they're at risk of being deported. and that's something you can google uh, deportation and adoption. and you can read article lift article as of these, the adoptive parents or the adult adoptees dealing with this issue. and it's not fun to other countries that offer more comprehensive financial assistance to make adoption more acceptable. sweden is the receiving country. why is the receiving country great britain?

all of the u. k. is receiving spain receives italy receives what their policies are. they are whether they help support them. i don't know. i really don't know. we're starting to get more and more into being supportive of it. like they're trying to encourage more. um, uh, employers to give uh families who are adopting similar time off as, as a, you know, maternity leave. i don't even know like i said, the state to state things very here. the tax credit is the tax credit is the one thing i know it's federal and every year it goes up that they are steady and it's federal. but otherwise, every thing in adoption is very state to state. either notable differences and the support provided by international adoption agency is based on their location. i don't know of any support that they give it a wall. and the reason being is they're sitting in the cat bird,

see what i told you before. the difference between supply and demand. there are, it's estimated $36.00 individuals or couples volume for each baby that's available for adoption to $36.00 to $1.00. and i think that figure is too low because i don't think when that figure was calculated, i think it was before same sex adoptions became, is huge and popular as they are now. i would say it's probably more like $50.00 to $1.00. but why would they have to give support and hold your hand and say, oh come you sweetheart. this is what you need to know, and you need to worry about your money being ripped to us. no, they're not going to help you with that figure to save you. if you're scared, we, if i have 10 other people waiting on line for this baby and beyond initial adoption cost, what ongoing financial considerations should adoptive families be mindful of,

especially in terms of health care, education and other essential needs? well, hills care, the charge would be like i said, considered their child. so it would be covered under the parents health insurance. and if the child had special needs that they would be subsidized for, um, what, what would be a concern and would come under the category of that wonderful question. you asked, unknown concerns that people should be aware of. it might not be children that are adopted at any age, even a newborn infant taken. you know something in domestic adoptions. the adoptive parents are right there and the delivery room and they take the baby immediately. if it's, even if it's a newborn infant, that child suffers a trauma. because in utero,

charlie has become accustomed to the sounds, the smell, the rhythms of the, of the just stating mother. and they've done a lot of, sorry, anticipate studies on this. they've given newborn babies pads from from mother's, brought us where they were dripping milk and they put it near the baby. and then they put another piece of cloth with just store board milk. busy store board formula and the baby was always turned his head towards him up his own mother's milk. they know that snail they know the sound of their mothers. they know the realism of their mother's a bodies. and they also did experiments with face recognition. and the babies will look more at their own mothers that anybody else post adoption adjustments can be challenging. so what advice do you have for families navigating

the initial phase of integrating and adopt a child into their family? first thing, what i said before, make sure that they've dealt with all their own grief. you don't want to put your grief on the child or expect the child to fix it for you. so make sure you've done ample, ample, grief, work around whatever grief you went through miscarriages, or whatever it was that you went through. do you agree for it? first? second thing is, make sure both parties in a couple are on the same page. and it's in heterosexual couples, for some reason i see more women taking the reins and the husbands kind of sitting back and letting it happen. and you're always wonder, then is the husband really into it as much, you know?

and that's something very important for both couple both parties in the couple to face very openly. are you doing this just to please me? or do you really want this as much as i do? and are you going to feel comfortable raising a child that is not biologically yours? they both have to come to terms with all of that. thank you so much narrow arriving for all your time today. the adoptions on foster care is also another option for couples. this involves working with a public child welfare agency or state contracted private agency to identify children in foster care or waiting for adoptive homes. this involves minimal expense, typically less than a $1000.00. well, private adoptions tend to be considerably more expensive. this is due to the federal and state adoption assistance programs, which minimize the financial ops to goals and encourage the placement of children

who are more difficult to place due to their age or issues. most foster care children will be older and the adjustment period may take longer, which is why many couples look to adopt from birth instead. so they don't miss out on a significant portion of their child's life. many kids placed in foster care and the going back to their biological parents to at some point. and couples fear of being too attached to a child, only to lose them in the end. but even though there are risks in the end, every child deserves a loving home and someone to take them in. i'm christie. i thanks for watching and we'll see you right back here next time on the cost of everything. the in 1941 with the nazis health probation, ultra nationalist, the was josh, is the claim, the independent state of croatia. shortly off,

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