Aliceacc
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We received an itemized price list before we adopted my son from Korea 9 years ago. It was what we were charged, down to the penny.
Here's what their current website lists: http://www.new-beginnings.org/korea_adoption_costs.php It's a much more generalized list than the one we were given, but it does provide a general breakdown.
In the $14,000 or so that goes to Korea is all the paperwork (everything from his visa to his passport)as well as the costs of room and board for a child for the 7 months it took for him to come to us. Sure that's a lot of money, but it includes all the typical beauracracy along with a lot of formula and diapers and insurance and doctor visits and vaccinations and all the rest. (Edited to add:how on earth did I forget this expense: Korean kids are flown to the US to meet their new families. There was the huge expense of Brian's airline ticket, as well as some compensation for the escort who tended a 7 month old for the 22 hour flight.)
The $300 for the parenting seminar was a full 2 day program. We discussed a lot. I've always been around kids and assumed that I knew it all. I was wrong; I learned a LOT in that mandatory program.
Any legitimate agency will provide you with an itemized list and will charge at different points along the way.
Realistically, things cost money. Something like this, particularly on an international scale, requires a lot of people working together; each of those people draws a salary.
Part of the high costs are because reputable agencies deal with agencies to prevent the "baby buying" that you're talking about. They go through channels and want to prevent baby snatching or coercion of the birth parents. Like anything else, going through channels costs money.
But I've never gotten a better reward for money I've spent in my entire life!!!
In early November, my minivan died. We decided on a $22,000 Kia Sedona. As much as it killed us, we found the money, since we needed the car.
That's pretty much the way we looked at adoption expenses. We wanted to become parents. We bit the bullet, took out some loans, and became parents of the most wonderful little boy on the planet. (Well, most days anyway.)
Each of us decides where our money goes. This will be our first trip to WDW since 1990. For a number of the years since, we paid off our adoption loans and didn't have the spare cash for a big vacation. (Then I took 6 years off my job and we still didn't have the money.)
But if you want to adopt badly enough there are ways to save the money. Skip the expensive vacations, drive that old car to the ground, work a second job, take out a loan. It can be done.
Here's what their current website lists: http://www.new-beginnings.org/korea_adoption_costs.php It's a much more generalized list than the one we were given, but it does provide a general breakdown.
In the $14,000 or so that goes to Korea is all the paperwork (everything from his visa to his passport)as well as the costs of room and board for a child for the 7 months it took for him to come to us. Sure that's a lot of money, but it includes all the typical beauracracy along with a lot of formula and diapers and insurance and doctor visits and vaccinations and all the rest. (Edited to add:how on earth did I forget this expense: Korean kids are flown to the US to meet their new families. There was the huge expense of Brian's airline ticket, as well as some compensation for the escort who tended a 7 month old for the 22 hour flight.)
The $300 for the parenting seminar was a full 2 day program. We discussed a lot. I've always been around kids and assumed that I knew it all. I was wrong; I learned a LOT in that mandatory program.
Any legitimate agency will provide you with an itemized list and will charge at different points along the way.
Realistically, things cost money. Something like this, particularly on an international scale, requires a lot of people working together; each of those people draws a salary.
Part of the high costs are because reputable agencies deal with agencies to prevent the "baby buying" that you're talking about. They go through channels and want to prevent baby snatching or coercion of the birth parents. Like anything else, going through channels costs money.
But I've never gotten a better reward for money I've spent in my entire life!!!
In early November, my minivan died. We decided on a $22,000 Kia Sedona. As much as it killed us, we found the money, since we needed the car.
That's pretty much the way we looked at adoption expenses. We wanted to become parents. We bit the bullet, took out some loans, and became parents of the most wonderful little boy on the planet. (Well, most days anyway.)
Each of us decides where our money goes. This will be our first trip to WDW since 1990. For a number of the years since, we paid off our adoption loans and didn't have the spare cash for a big vacation. (Then I took 6 years off my job and we still didn't have the money.)
But if you want to adopt badly enough there are ways to save the money. Skip the expensive vacations, drive that old car to the ground, work a second job, take out a loan. It can be done.
Congrats on the new member of the family!!!!!
