What’sup webfolk? The last time I posted for the pregnancy blog I was talking about some of the latest teen pregnancy stats indicating that the numbers are going down. That of course is a good thing but something else that I mentioned in that post was the fact that the amount of kids in the foster care system was trending down as well.
That’s not to say that there are not plenty of kids in the system and coming into the foster care system that will not need parents to step up and adopt them. I applaud anyone that is willing to step up and adopt a child whether it is a child from their own country or from a country over seas. I just don’t understand the people who think that spending anywhere from 15k to 25k on an “adoption fee” as the only way to adopt a child.
My wife and I were never able to have our own children in spite of years of fertility doctors and procedures but during all that time we were perfectly able to become foster parents. Which by the way is no cost to you in case you were wondering and what is even better than that is because we were foster parents we were able to adopt both of children for “no adoption fee”! Let me be clear the only cost to us and we have done this twice now, for adopting both of our kids was the cost to process the adoption paperwork and birth certificate which in both cases was below $150 each.
Did you catch that? For less than $300 dollars we were able to adopt both of our perfectly healthy children and we did not have to go into financial debt to do it. Over the years we have come across a lot of couples that for one reason or another were never able to have their own children and had pretty much given up on the idea of having kids all together that were totally unaware that adopting kids through the foster care system was even an option. Or they knew about it but just assumed that it was going to cost them thousands of dollars just like a regular adoption.
So knowing that there are all these children in the US foster care system that are looking for adoptive forever families to give them a second chance at a good life why is there such a disconnect between the kids and those people out there that want to so badly be parents? Is it just a case of a lack of information? Does the idea of adopting a child from foster care have that much of a stigmatism attached to it that people are that scared of it? I’ll tell you what though as far as having to deal with a child that has “issues” it does not matter the age or the situation that you adopt them from those kids are going to have “issues” just like any other child that you may be blessed with. That’s part of being a parent and it’s your job to deal with all that stuff that your kid is going to go through in their lives whether they are your child by birth or adoption fee or no fee these kids need parents.
Kudos to you peruser 
Dave
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