Exactly, which is one of the major flaws of the current welfare system.
I don't see that there's any shortage of people who cannot have children of their own who would be willing to adopt, especially when I see the number of people with foreign adoptions.
And of the "system" in general. People have no motivation to take responsibility for themselves and their actions, because *somebody* will pick up the tab.
There is a huge shortage of responsible people who are willing to adopt babies who are premature, black/dark Hispanic, AIDS-infected, drug-addicted, with physical and/or mental problems that will require expensive, time-consuming care. Most people who adopt such babies are getting permanent payments and free medical and other services from the government, and terms of care continue to be controlled by the government (e.g. the government social workers, not the adoptive parents, decide whether the child needs certain behavioral control drugs, certain kinds of therapy, public schooling, etc. and whether there may be guns in the home). There are a few responsible people actually willing to take on this sort of thing, with all the attached strings, but it still requires government outlay of cash, which the government will still try to recoup from a “father”. There are quite a lot of people willing to this just for the cash, who don’t give a crap about the kids, and neglect/abuse/dump them. Remember the adopted boys from Texas who were found in an African orphanage, after the “school” in Africa where their adoptive mother had dumped them got rid of them because the mother wasn’t paying the school — the mother was continuing to get regular checks sent to her in Texas, and had collected over a $1 million in payments for various adopted and foster children over the years. Remember the couple of dozen disabled kids found in Kentucky or Tennessee, neglected, abused, crutches taken away as punishment for not performing all the slave labor the adults demanded of them, forced to dig “graves” while being told they’d be buried in them — they were all adopted and foster kids who’d been dumped by the original adults who’d taken them in for cash, and who in most cases were still receiving payments, with portions being forwarded to the scum the children had ended up with.
Foreign adoptions are nearly all of healthy babies, mostly white or Chinese, with NO strings attached once the adoptive parents leave the child’s country of origin with the child, and no chance of a biological parent showing up months or years down the road and getting a US court to yank the child out of the only home it’s ever known and give it to the biological parent.