re: #227 jaunte

In my experience (4 adoptions)the cost of adopting a healthy white infant domestically is about six times the cost of adopting an older child, a sick child, or a non-white child. People go overseas to avoid legal issues, but there are states whose laws encourage adopting without entanglements.

I was a supposedly sick (diagnosis was CP, but it never really manifested) white infant going on 2 before I was adopted. Had my parents not chosen me, chances are decent that I never would have been. It makes me grateful for them. It also makes me grateful that my natural mother (whom I will likely never know) did not choose an abortion.