I wonder, if that’s the case, who the adoption agency would bill for the delivery costs if the adoption contract was breached. And if it never got paid, it would have been written off as a loss 5 or so years later.
I am not as familiar with “homes for the unwed” as I am adoption agencies. So with that said adoption agencies spread the cost of unfinished adoptions to the finished ones. That is part in parcel of why healthy child adoption costs can soar. They have to absorb the failed adoptions and special need babies that are born under the wings of the adoption agency. With many more women comfortable as single moms the failed adoptions have risen dramatically.