Stipends

In our county, many kids do not get an adoption subsidy that involves money every month. The prospective adoptive parents have to apply for it, and fill out PAGES and PAGES of information about why they feel the child needs a subsidy, and what they would use the subsidy money for. Many are denied. However, I don't know of any kids adopted through our county who do not receive medicaid through their 18th birthday, so I guess that counts as "subsidy". That being said, when you are fostering a child and getting a subsidy check each month for that child, it assists in raising the child's standard of living. For some families, who are living paycheck to paycheck, taking that check away would, in fact, make it superbly difficult to care for a child forever. I look at it as, the subsidy sometimes enables these kids to remain with the families they're bonded to, regardless of that family's income.