Stipends

I don't get it either. I hate to admit that both of my perfectly healthy, caucasion, non-drug exposed children adopted as infants get adopton assistance including a monthly stipend, free medical, and WIC coupons. I could have never afforded to adopt once, let alone twice, without the adoption assistance. However, it is not supposed to be about helping me afford to adopt. It is supposed to be about helping find families for the children, and had I not adopted them, there are plenty of other families who would have without the assistance. In my state, virtually all children adopted from foster care qualify based on "Adverse Parental Background" counting as a special need, but I can't help buy wonder how much more money would be available to help truly special needs kids if healthy kids like mine didn't qualify. That being said, I am so thankful that they do qualify because without it, they wouldn't be my kids.