kid-at-heart
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2006
We created our family by adoption almost twenty-one years ago. No fund-raising available then. We saved for several years before starting the process and still struggled to pay all the adoption expenses. We also borrowed some money, via a personal loan from a bank, and paid it back over a five year period. Adoption is expensive, especially if you are involved with paying the birth mother's pregnancy expenses. We both worked full time before and after our daughter's birth, sucked to have to leave each day for work when we wanted to stay home with her but was so worth it just to have her in our lives. Hindsight, I would do it all again in a heartbeat. Adoption is a great way to create a family.
I am not sure how a case worker doing an adoption home study would look at fundraising for adoption. I would be careful there. They may see fundraising as an indication that one cannot afford a child.
Good luck. Being a parent is awesome!
I am not sure how a case worker doing an adoption home study would look at fundraising for adoption. I would be careful there. They may see fundraising as an indication that one cannot afford a child.
Good luck. Being a parent is awesome!