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General Costs? Type of Adoption?
So we have recently started down the journey of exploring infertility treatments and adoption. We want to know all our options and make the best choice for us and our future child. We have appointments with all agencies and REs to learn our options, but they are both a month away. It's weird...when we first started TTC I was worried about how much a baby could cost. Now I'm worried about the costs of bringing a child into our lives--however it may happen. Please help cure my anxiety and curiosity by answering...
location/state?
type of adoption?(international? domestic? infant? toddler?)
cost?
Thanks in advance ladies! This may help me sleep tonight 
TTC our first, both age 29
BFP#1 Twins, Missed MC with complications (long story)
BFP#2 CP
DX: DH-no issues
Me-PAI-1 1/2013 Hysteroscopy/Laparoscopy to remove polyp and adhesions
March 2013 IUI #1 with Follitism + Trigger
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Re: General Costs? Type of Adoption?
We will be using an adoption agency to complete our domestic infant adoption. We are located in Texas. Our agency uses a sliding scale based on annual income (avg. of the last 2 year) - we are at the very lowest end of the scale and will be paying about $22,000 in agency fees, plus an additional $1,000 or so in legal fee to finalize the adoption.
The answers you get will vary DRAMATICALLY - from near-zero cost (adopting from the foster care system sometimes is at no cost to the adoptive family) to upwards of $50,000 for international adoptions.
We adopted in PA, and adopted a child born in PA (there are fees associated with interstate adoption, due to legal paperwork)
Domestic infant adoption
$34K
I would encourage you to check out the FAQs if you haven't already. There are resources there, including a rundown of types of adoption, costs associated with each, how to fundraise, etc.
GL
We live in IL. It will cost us close to 30,000 when everything is all done. We are hoping the adoption tax credit will be signed and we can get back then at least 10,000-13,000 dollars when the adoption is finalized, but we won't know that until the next month or two.
Infertility really did not cost us anything do to insurance covering it. We have 1 failed IVF cycle under our belts with 3 more remaining to try that would be 100% covered. Crazy to think we are giving up right now trying something that is free and spending almost 30,000 dollars instead(which is more then out of pocket IVF too!)....sometimes you just need a mental break and know we will eventually have an outcome(a baby) is why we are doing adoption right now and trying IVF again later.
1st adoption was NY to NJ at about 30k plus about 4k in hotel expenses for domestic newborn African American male adoption. Wait time =zero. Just homestudy approved.
2nd adoption FL to IA at 41k plus 6 weeks in hotel 10k in hotel/travel/hotel living costs for domestic newborn African American girl adoption. Wait time = zero. Just homestudy approved.
The thing to note is that on average African American adoptions are generally about half the cost of ours.
We used American Adoptions where you set your own budget with min of. 19,500.
Our second adoption with them was brought to them by a law firm that handles adoptions but had no waiting families for AA babies. The cost was increased because they wanted a cut too plus they refused to allow icpc to begin until courts terminated bio dads rights/added to putitive father registry 30 days since he was denying he was the dad and refusing to relinquish rights. Very frustrating.
I think average for American adoptions AA cases is 22k plus 06 mo wait.