Biracial and AA adoption Agencies

I hate to rain on you parade but I wanted to say two things. 1. Just because you are open to an African American child does not mean that you will be matched quickly. There are some people on this board who waited two years for a African American child and others who waited only six months for a full caucasian child. This is especially true nowadays because many agenies have found lots of families of all races who are open to African American children. 2. Its very difficult to adopt for less than 15K. If you are talking about only the program/placement fee, there are many agencies that will have fees that are around that much money. Most adoptions cost about 20-30K for everything - including homstudy and post placement etc.

Gladney was the agency we choose recently, paid the application fee, and were told that they "regretfully" could not work with us. I regret that I had to pay money to be told no.

I've heard of the same happening with Gladney. People that use them seem to love them, but a handful of people pay only to get rejected. We didn't apply with them, we don't qualify (can't remember for what reason!)

oregongirl: why couldn't they work with you? Did they say?

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