Posted on 06/10/2016 3:28:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Lots of young boys would cringe at the thought of bringing home a baby sister, but 9-year-old Kiefer Martin can’t wait.
After acting as a foster family for several years, the Martins have decided to grow their family through adoption.
“We are a foster family for the county, so we have been doing that for a couple years now.” Says Keifer’s mom, Emily. “After seeing the need for families we have decided this is where our heart is pulling us.”
“In foster care we have been having a lot of boys, and we have only had 2 girls, so we want a girl.”
And Kiefer wants to help his family bring home the new addition.
In addition to his lemonade stand, he is also building and selling bird houses in the front yard.
Adoption is an expensive process, costing approximately $30,000.
But Keifer says he isn’t stopping until he brings his new baby sister home.
This may sound like a foolish question, but I don’t know the answer: Why would an adoption cost anywhere near $30,000.00
to complete? I had no bleeping idea it could be that expensive. With all the children awaiting for families, that cost should go down, way down. Maybe it’s just in America that the process is so expensive.
And comes along the town council to shut him down.
But it's nuts that adoption costs so much. We adopted (18 years ago) and I'll always advocate it as an excellent choice, but can't something be done about the cost?
We try not to discourage anybody When somebody asks about the cost of our adoption, we say, "About the same a putting new siding and windows on our house."
Everything is a choice. It's about what you value.
30,000 sounds like buying a baby. the expense of an adoption should be about a 1/3 that.
I know someone who adopted two children back in the 80s. Each child cost about $20,000, which included pre-natal care for the mother, as well as hospital care during and after delivery.
Because there are lawyers and bureaucrats involved. The lawyers charge by the hour and the bureaucrats make endless demands of the adoptive parents that cost thousands of dollars. And neither one cares how much it costs.
You can call your state representative and senator and ask them to sponsor legislation streamlining the process.
The adoption process, just as with the legal immigration process, needs to be streamlined. However, as you said, a lot of people in the gauntlet line for a shakedown would not like it.
Yeah, but he didn’t build it.
No mention of the permit the kid probably needs to sell lemonade.
The fine is going to exceed his gross income by quite a bit if he’s not in compliance.
Which is why Trump is so popular.
Does he have a license for that? Is an environmental impact report on file? Does he have a suitably diverse clientele?
Hopefully they don’t live in an area that has cops close down such lemonade stands.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/15/georgia-police-close-girls-lemonade-stand.html
You can call your state representative and senator and ask them to sponsor legislation streamlining the process.
Having learned a little about this process via a relative I know that adoptions are done across all states and also international. Any state that limits income will see a big reduction of available babies. Also, some girls are actually making a living by getting pregnant and putting them on the market. One has done as many as 4 like this. It can be a racket.
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