Types of Adoption
Public Child Welfare
Children that go through this system are in state security. This is put together by state child welfare agencies and private agencies. The children wait to be adopted, and are eligible to be taken in to custody by foster parents or whomever. It may price from $0-$2500 dollars for a family to take custody of a child in domestic foster care.
Significant Statistics
In 1999, totals were being finalized for foster care and about 581,000 children were in foster care. Only about twenty-two percent were available to be adopted. Also that year 60% of foster children out of 251,000 were exited and returned to their birth parents.
Private Adoption
This type of adoption is a direct connection from adoptive parents to birth parents. The arrangers of the agency could be by independents agencies non-profit or for-profit, but must be licensed to be a facilitator. The adoption cost of a child from a domestic private agency can range from $4,000-$30,000 dollars.
Significant Statistics
States are not legally required to release records on private adoptions, but in 1992 about 127,000 were adopted through all types of abortion. Using those statistics from more resourceful data to indicate the numbers of private adoptions.
International Adoption
Children from other countries become U.S. citizens, depending on the laws of the country the child has come from will dictate if the child is able to live abroad under country laws. The price range for children to live abroad under an international agency would cost from $7,000-$25,000 dollars.
Significant Statistics
Over three decades from 1971 to 2001, 265,677 children were adopted and became U.S. citizens. From 1991 to 2001 international adoptions doubled from 9,050 to 19,237, 64% were girls and 36% were boys. About 95% of children were internationally adopted from twenty countries.
Transracial Adoption
This is a cultural mix, this is when a foster parent adopts a child of a different ethnicity.
Significant Statistics
A significant study found that in 1987, about 8% of adoptions were transracial. In 1998, adoptions from foster care estimated about 15% of 36,000 were of mixed ethnicity.
Children from other countries become U.S. citizens, depending on the laws of the country the child has come from will dictate if the child is able to live abroad under country laws. The price range for children to live abroad under an international agency would cost from $7,000-$25,000 dollars.
Significant Statistics
Over three decades from 1971 to 2001, 265,677 children were adopted and became U.S. citizens. From 1991 to 2001 international adoptions doubled from 9,050 to 19,237, 64% were girls and 36% were boys. About 95% of children were internationally adopted from twenty countries.
Transracial Adoption
This is a cultural mix, this is when a foster parent adopts a child of a different ethnicity.
Significant Statistics
A significant study found that in 1987, about 8% of adoptions were transracial. In 1998, adoptions from foster care estimated about 15% of 36,000 were of mixed ethnicity.