With all due respect, I have always been told that it is very difficult to adopt children in our own country. Supposedly that is why there are so many foreign adoptions. Take care and God bless.
My cousin adopted a baby from South America. It was still expensive. The reason that she did this, though, was the birth mother can't change her mind in a year and try to regain custody.
A lot of people go outside the US for this reason- they don't want to go through a nightmare custody battle and maybe lose.