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How much does adoption cost? | US Domestic Infant Adoption | Skill Up [CC] - YouTube
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hello and welcome back to my channel
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ladies this is your first time here
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welcome and if you're one of my
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wonderful subscribers welcome back today
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we're going to be talking about the cost
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of domestic infant adoption in the
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United States I'm gonna give you the
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averages for 2016 I'm gonna give you the
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cost for a national agency I've been
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working with as well as a local state
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agency so if you like this video find
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information that's helpful go ahead and
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like the video and if you're interested
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in learning more about infertility
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pregnancy and adoption go ahead and hit
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that subscribe button
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what's it started the first acts I'm
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going to go over are from a website
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called adoption families and it's a
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great resource for everyone was looking
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to adopt impaired children that they
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have adopted every few years they
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collect the cost of adoptions from
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families that browse their site they put
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together these statistics not only for
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domestic adoption but also for
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international and foster to adopt and
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they even break it down by country so
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it's really great if you decided to go
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through with an international adoption
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you can go see what the current cost for
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different countries is looking like they
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also record wait times it's an excellent
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resource I shall leave it in the
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description below but in this video
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we're only going to deal with US
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domestic adoption and the stats that I'm
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gonna read off next are from 2016 the
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average cost for 2016 for the full
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adoption cost was forty-three thousand
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two hundred and thirty nine dollars
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which is a lot I think that's the number
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one thing when I start to talk to people
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about our adoption and the process we're
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going through and they'll throw out a
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number like oh yeah well at least you
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guys you know you can come up with 10
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grand pretty easy and I'm like I don't
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think we're talking about the same like
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this isn't a vacation this is an
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adoption there is a large cost
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difference between those two so I think
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it's one of those things that I try to
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gently educate people on people get a
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little icky about money but I just want
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to make sure people know the 茅lys茅e
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ballpark of adoptions I'm gonna go
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through what goes into that cost and
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what each thing is and I'll put them
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over here for you so you
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like write like write them down or
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listen really closely I'll put them all
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over here so you can see the breakdown
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you can go to the link below for the
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exact numbers I'm gonna list them off
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here pretty quick so we can keep moving
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on in this video for us newborn agency
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led adoptions people spent around $2,400
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in their home study another six hundred
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dollars on preparation and
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authentication documentation
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say that three dozen say they spent
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around nineteen thousand dollars on
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adoption agency application and program
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fees they spent around two and a half
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thousand dollars on adoption
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consultation fees four thousand four
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hundred dollars on attorney fees two
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thousand dollars on advertising
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networking and profile books one
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thousand three hundred on birth family
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counseling three thousand four hundred
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on birth mother expenses three hundred
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dollars on foster or interim care two
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thousand two hundred dollars for travel
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expenses two thousand dollars for
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postpartum expenses post placement not
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postpartum sorry and other expenses and
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there was about three thousand dollars
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giving you that grand total of forty
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three thousand dollars for the average
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cost of a u.s. newborn infant adoption
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in the United States said that twice in
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2016 some of the things that you might
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not have full clarity on is let me see
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birth mother expenses those are gonna be
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things like rent utilities food as well
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as medical expenses I don't think they
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broke those out because when the theory
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is if you were going to adopt a child
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you are taking care of them now and if
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for any reason the birth family cannot
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pay their utilities cannot pay their
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rent
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you are gonna take responsibility as a
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adoptive parent for that child now and
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pay Vosges I think I mentioned it in
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another video Oh
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choosing your adoption agency make sure
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you know the disruption policy with your
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agency because some of these fees are
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recoverable in some art I mentioned it
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now because birthmother expenses are
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usually the ones that aren't recoverable
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travel expenses that's gonna be
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traveling to and from wherever the birth
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mother lives
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and the expected family lives you may do
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several visits before the child is even
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born so she can get to know you but you
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are definitely traveling there and
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staying there if it's out of state until
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a finalization of the adoptions yeah of
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course the majority of the cost is the
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adoption agency application and program
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fees and this is just how the adoption
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agency stays in business this is keeping
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their staff employed paying for their
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time paying for their knowledge there's
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a lot of arguments of whether or not it
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should be that expensive but this is the
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reality of it so that's what I'm talking
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about today all right if you want
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definitions of any other things that I
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mentioned in there you can go ahead and
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leave a comment below but for the sake
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of timing of this video I'm moving up
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all right I also contacted a national
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agency while I was researching my
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adoption agent season you want to figure
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out how on earth we chose our adoption
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agency you can click the iCard up above
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but we ended up not going with the
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national agency but i still have all the
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cost breakdown on the fee schedule so
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I'm gonna go ahead and share that with
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you now so they have two programs and I
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am going to talk about their traditional
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program semitic traditional program has
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a fee range of 36,000 to 50,000 which
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the average cap cost being around 44 to
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48 so you're seeing what the cost of
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adoptions gone up a little bit in the
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last two years but that makes sense and
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this is kind of the very premium
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adoption agency very professional very
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well put together and so they're on the
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upper range of that I thought it was
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interesting what they noted that anybody
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who has a adoption budget of 41,000 $300
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or less has a severe reduction in the
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amount of expectant mothers they can be
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shown to to the point where they say
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that only 5% of their situations fall
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under that threshold in contrast to the
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national averages this agency had a very
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large advertising and online
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presents fee it was almost $11,000 which
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is way about the average of of the of
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the 2016 stats that also meant that you
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had to pay way more upfront to even get
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active than with most agencies usually
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there's a fee schedule where you have
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your application for you to start your
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next fee will be your home study which
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mine is only $1,000
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you saw the average was 2/3 then after
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that you're gonna have your like go live
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fees your activation fees which include
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any of your online presence and
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advertising so this agency has quite a
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bit of an upfront cost versus usually
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it's only a few thousand to go active
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and then there's your match fees and
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your placement fees which all roll up
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into that kind of administrative fee
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what we saw on the average table the
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reason it's important to note that is
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because you don't need to have the full
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cost of an adoption ready when you go
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live because there is going to be time
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in between where you're just sitting and
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waiting to be match and then after your
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match you're waiting for the baby to be
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born so you have kind of a lot of time
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in between when you go live and when you
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actually have a baby in your hands
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unless you take on an emergency
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placement and then it is kind of an
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emergency you need that money you know
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but usually you're gonna have a few
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months to kind of gather the rest of
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that money moving on to the local state
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agency so this agency has a fee range of
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twenty seven and a half thousand dollars
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all the way up to forty six thousand
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dollars and that depends again a lot on
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what situation your expectant family is
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in so if there are no expenses living
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expenses you need to cover and they have
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full medical coverage that takes out a
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lot of that money obviously almost
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twenty thousand dollars and depending on
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the how depending on the lawyer you get
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that fluctuation is accounted for in the
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legal fees as well
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the application fee for this agency is
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only $250 and the home study is only a
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thousand
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then once that's all taken care of you
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also have the cost of your profile books
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but they only have books and not online
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presents so that is just whatever you
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can get one of those little scrapbook
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books on Shutterfly 4 so I think that's
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like $50 for a few copies to go live on
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their program is $5,000 they state that
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that cost covers maintaining your file
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networking your profile screening
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prospective birth parents counseling for
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birth parents weekly visits with the
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birth parents grocery shopping
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assistance and bill pay transportation
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one needed assistance in budget planning
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housing assistance an ongoing support
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legal consultation for their for them
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the costs that are upfront so for this
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agency that is only a little over six
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thousand dollars to actually go live and
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then the rest of the fees are going to
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be due later on the matching fee is six
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thousand five hundred dollars placement
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is ten thousand which brings all of
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those kind of very static fees two to
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twenty two thousand seven hundred fifty
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dollars then you get into kind of the
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varying expenses they say budget at
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least three thousand dollars for birth
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parent related expenses another ten
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thousand hospital bills and one to ten
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thousand dollars for the legal fee which
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I feel like is a huge range but whatever
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and then that will bring you to your
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actual grand total at the end of things
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so you can see that no one is crazy out
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of line or way way way cheaper than any
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other agency obviously this entire video
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has been about paying full price for an
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adoption and not including any agencies
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that will subsidize an adoption or any
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adoptive families that get grants so
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those are very much an option and will
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change your budgeting experience but I
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saw such a huge range of numbers when I
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started to look up the cost of adoption
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and I just wanted an answer just for a
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normal adoption how much does it cost
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and the answer right now and 2018 is
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it's probably gonna cost you forty two
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thousand and forty five thousand dollar
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to get a domestic inputted option going
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and finished if there are any other
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questions that I didn't answer in this
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video go ahead and leave them below
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there's a ton of fundraising resources
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out there there are wonderful wonderful
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sites that help facilitate this and
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there's wonderful programs out there and
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adoption agencies that offer some
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substitutes based on your religion or
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your race or adopting a special needs
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child so it exists out there if his
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number kind of gave you a fright made
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you stop for a second you are normal but
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there are other options out there
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depending on just your circumstances and
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once you're ready to handle so I hope
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you found this helpful okay and if you
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have any other questions go and leave
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them in the comments below please give
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this video a like it really really helps
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out my channel and until next time
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ladies keep on fighting
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