[Chickensoup]

adoptive children with developmental disabilities come with monthly stipends.

perhaps the bucks mattered

[utahagen]

I believe the child was adopted from India, in which case she would not have been sponsored by the US welfare system. (However, if she had been in the USA, and had been placed as a foster child-on-the-way-to-being-adopted, the parents would have got monthly subsidies.)

[momtothree]

Not with foreign adoption. It does come with stipends in domestic adoptions. That being said, I won’t even comment on the “adoption” aspect. All the people I know who adopted (both domestically and foreign) are upstanding parents. Foreign adopters know that many times the child is behind for a while. It goes with the territory and isn’t a secret (even when you adopt a young child). Very, very sad for the little one... how many people would have gladly taken her and loved her...