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The Adoption Industry:
The Motive is Money
BIG BUSINESS: $1.4 Billion
| Adoption Affects Millions
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Adoption Today: 1 White Newborn can
sell for $60,000 US from a reputable adoption agency. This
price is called a "fee for service." - information
courtesy of AMFOR
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Adoption is North Amerca's largest unregulated
industry. Money changes hands in exchange for a baby. Most of
the time this money goes into businesses known as "adoption
agencies," but can also go to facilitators, lawfirms, or
other entities whose financial bottom line depends on providing
a steady flow of newborns to an eager market. Like any other industry,
adoption is fueled by consumer
demand. In this case, the demand of people hoping to adopt
a newborn infant, who are often willing to pay from $25,000 to
$50,000 or more for that child. What has been called an "epidemic
of infertility," due in part to an "age-related infertility"
when a woman's fertility begins to decrease due to age, has led
to this demand for newborns.
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MUST Read: Infant Adoption is Big Business
in America
by Darlene Gerow
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BIG BUSINESS:
Adoption Services Valued At $1.4 Billion
Report by Nancy Ashe
Copyright © 2001 About.com, Inc.
"An industry analysis
of Fertility Clinics and Adoption Services by Marketdata Enterprises
of Tampa, FL, has placed a $1.4 billion value on adoption
services in the US, with a projected annual growth rate of
11.5% to 2004. According to a report from PR Newswire,
this is the only analysis of this business sector ever undertaken.
Some details:
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In 1999, there
were 138,000 US adoptions;
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There are 4,500
adoption services providers in the US, which include
2,000 public agencies, 2,000 private agencies, and 500
adoption attorneys;
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The number of
attorneys involved in adoption has doubled over the
past 10 years;
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Gross income
for small agencies can come to $400,000 per year, and
$10+ million for large agencies.
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Much of the present
and future growth is attributable to the rise in international
adoptions.
Marketdata's analysis
places adoption costs between $15,000 - $30,000, and describes
adoption as 'complex, and stories of unscrupulous operators
abound in this loosely regulated field.' "
From "About.Com:
About Adoption". Reprinted with Permission of Author
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Adoption
Affects Millions
There are approximately 6 million adoptees
in the United States. We can extrapolate that there are usually
4 sets of parents involved in each adoption (two natural parents
and two dopters). This increases the number to 24 million people
involved in Adoption. Add siblings, stepparents, facilitators,
grandparents, aunts, uncles, and it is not illogical to conclude
that there are over 100 million people in the United States involved
in Adoption.
There are costs involved in the original
adoption - usually fees paid by adopters to a "third party"
who acts as a broker. Examples of some fees are:
- Religious Agencies: A few hundred
dollars to $10,000.00 or more
- Non-denominational Private Agencies:
$10,000 to $20,000
- Independent [Private] Adoption:
A few thousand dollars to $50,000 but may be higher if there
are high medical bills.
- Public Agencies: None to minimal.
But there may be attorney fees of several thousand dollars
to finalize the adoption.
- International Adoption: $5,000 -$20,000
to the agency plus transportation
and lodging fees.
This is why there are entrepreneurs who
make their livelihood convincing young parents to relinquish their
babies - it is a profitable business. These "baby brokers"
include: adoption lawyers, church-run maternity homes,
"facilitators," government social workers, and commercial
or"non-profit" agencies.
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"Adoption was created to provide
homes for orphans. These by definition are children without
parents. Car crashes, war, natural disasters. It
was never created to provide children to 'poor infertile
couples'. When did the wires get crossed? I guess when
someone started making money. Children are not a commodity!!!!
Get a puppy." - an adoptee
"Follow the
money" - Deep Throat
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