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Foster care is the cheapest--- the state pays the bills, but you are expected to care for whomever they send to you. The state may take weeks-months trying to assess if the real parents should get the child back. If they decide to terminate their rights--- you could adopt and the state will stop their childcare payments (but MAY continue some Medicaid or counseling support)... Such kids are often 2-12 years old and may have some neglect or abuse history...
Google "Private Adoption" $10-20K (but could be cheaper...) You get your OWN "Home Study" completed. You advertise (e.g. [url=http://www.ParentProfiles.com]Hopeful Adoptive Parents, Couples, Families Hoping to Adopt, Parent Profiles, Adoption, Unplanned Pregnancy[/url]) and find your won birthmother. You pay for advertising, your adoption lawyer, her adoption lawyer and social worker support for her (+/- any state approved/mandated reimbursements to her for non-covered medical and other expenses)...
Last update on November 23, 9:02 am by Sachin Gupta.
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If you are looking for lower cost or free adoption definitely go with foster care... but I have to ask, why you specifically want to adopt a Black child? Parenting children of another race is not easy. To specifically request a Black child seems a bit odd, unless you are yourself Black or have other Black children.