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How do you adopt a unwanted child legally?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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Children who are up for adoption is rarely unwanted. More often are they wanted but the parents cannot care for them for different reasons. First you have to pass the home study so contact an adoption agency or a social worker. Then you wait. if you insist on a baby it can take 10 years. Adopting in the uS cost around $40 000 and from abroad around $50 000. Foster care and older children are cheaper and can get faster. The agency will help you through the legal stuff and they have lawyers. Otherwise you need to get one yourself. The lawyer will take care of having the adoption legalized in court.

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