Just wondering if birth mothers got the same Moneys that you get when you adopt?
Would they be able to keep their child. When you adopt out of foster care you get payed for adopting or just caring for the child. When the child gets older they can go to college and their rent payed. If the child doesn't come out of foster care the adopted couple get a big tax deduction . Now most if not always the tax payer gets to pay for the birth. My question is don't you think if the birth mother got that kind of help she would keep her child? Do not even try to say she can get child support check it out most fathers don't pay. Maybe food stamps but so can the adopted parents. Medicaid now that is what they do get. Wow.
2009-03-28T09:54:09Z
I don't know where your from but what single mother get is not what adopted couples get. I have a single daughter that has a child and the father doesn't pay half the times she gets no money. She is to proud for food stamps. She works full time and attends college full time and raises her son. Would have been nice if she got for sure 400 hundred dollars a month and his college payed for.
2009-03-28T13:12:01Z
Sarah, Foster parent and those who adopt out of foster care are good people just why pay them. Foster parents that have more than one child knows that when the child ages out the child has to go no matter, If you adopted great. Your child gets college, your child get medical needs taking care of Cool try being a mother with a deaf child and make to much money for medicaid, No insurance will take the child and she's not deaf enough for SSI. Try coming up with the money for the 23 operations. It's hard. Now some of you don't know but my grandson was kidnapped by a church adoption agency (the member will be paying a long time for the settelment they had to pay my son) The adoption agency and wanta be adopted parents had a nerve to ask in court why the father didn't pay for the birth . They took the child before DNA. The adoption agency nor the couple pay either the state of Texas did. That mean you and me. The couple got 11 thousand in tax breaks for a child that is proved in court
2009-03-28T13:21:54Z
that the couple payed their church adoption agency 3 thousand dollars for. . Maybe if their wasn't such good tax breaks and money gave to the adopted couple less of them would be out there stealling children from their natural parents. For the ones thinking about doing this I wouldn't My son also sued them and with the church and the adoption agency and social worker they will always have to explaine why some young man sued them. What people won't know is that the lawsuit would have been droped at any time if they just did the right thing and gave the father his son he had been fighting for since 2 days before birth. I think they are kidnappers and need to return the tax break and any other money the recieved from this kidnapping
Shelly172009-03-28T16:00:59Z
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Poverty is the single biggest reason both why newborns are surrendered for adoption and why children are apprehended and put in foster care. That is a fact. When there are no job, no daycare, under- or unemployment, and strict welfare rules such that you will NOT get additional monies if you have further children, and there are lifetime time-limits on when you can actually receive welfare, when WIC is NOT an entitlement but states get block funding for it that does NOT help all eligible mothers -- you get mothers who are forced to surrender their babies.
“Most infants placed for adoption come from poor families. Check with any of the adoption agencies and their adoption lawyers to verify that the number one reason for relinquishment today is the inability to afford to raise the child. This is a sad commentary on the richest and most powerful country in the world” - Reuben Pannor
No, there is NOT the help out there. If the thousands of dollars what are paid to foster parents and adoptive parents were paid to these mothers instead -- mothers innocent of child abuse -- then they would not have to lose their babies.
In Australia, there are such universal family bonuses bonuses paid by the federal gov't to top up income, along with welfare and sole parent support. The minimum wage is $14/hour and every new mother gets a $5000 baby bonus. If they can do it, so can we!!
Many children who are adopted out of foster care their parents rights were either willing terminated or terminated by the courts. I was adopted from FC my family got no money after I was legally adopted they did while I was still a foster child. I did not have the benefit of having my education (college) paid for by the state or government. I was covered under my father’s military medical plan and because I went to college they covered me until I was 23.
If someone is placing strictly for financial reasons then yes I could understand how some benefits that people who adopt (Infant domestic adoption) can get would help them keep and parent. That said there are countless programs and assistance if someone wants to keep and parent their child and the only thing stopping them is money. If someone is too proud to accept this help and aid that is no one else fault but their own pride. From what your talking about giving someone monthly money from the government this is also aid and help so really if someone is to proud to take and accept aid that is already available I don’t see them taking money from the government because that too is aid.
Hmmm, perhaps I was a foster parent in the wrong area then. The amount we were given was just barely enough to care for the child and we certainly did not do it for the money. At the same time however, we were able to keep getting part of that money after we adopted and that was to protect against adoption breakdowns. It's a standard thing in my Province and is automatic when an adoption occurs through foster care.
Funny part is, it is actually less per month then what someone would receive on welfare or through supplemental social assistance. By that I mean that if a set of birth parents had chosen to keep the child (although in our case she was removed by the courts) those birth parents would have been eligible for more money per month in welfare and assistance then we receive for taking care of the same child.
For us, there is no college education provided to our daughter, either due to her adoption or due to her being First Nations (she's non-registered). The only reason she will be able to go to college if she wishes is because it was our choice to set aside a good portion of her monthly money after her adoption. We are not obligated to do that and the money is for her upbringing, not her college and such, but we were in a position to be able to save it for her.
As adoptive parents in the UK we didn't get a penny - it may have changed now I don't know but 12 years ago when we adopted from foster care our son came to us at 14 months from foster parents he had been with since birth.
because of red tape etc he wasn't actually adopted until he was almost 4 - in that time we got no money apart from child benefit. No maternity or paternity leave - in fact it was a prerequisite that the main carer (me) had to stop working to be at home - not allowed to put child in childcare etc and my hubby used his holiday entitlement to have a couple of weeks with us
This wasn't just us but it was generic across the board. Adopters have a far better time of it now with the same rights as having a child born to them - which is how it should be for every child
If you adopt a child from foster care, you do get paid the monthly child care stipend until the adoption is finalized - just as you would for any foster child. However, you don't always get additional money paid to you after finalization; if the child is special needs, yes, you will, but even then it's on a graduated basis according to their needs. Additional support through the school system and community is again on an as-needed basis, at least in the state I live in. If the child is evaluated and they don't find a need for these services, they won't be provided. A couple friends of mine adopted a sibling group from foster care about a year ago - both kids were evaluated and it was determined that they didn't need additional support. As soon as the adoption was finalized, there was no more monthly monetary support, either. They're just raising them as they would non-adopted children. And, they would be very happy to hear that their children were going to get their college and rent paid - that would be a new one to them, I can promise you that. I suppose they would if they qualified for financial aid? But just because they were adopted as toddlers from foster care... I've never heard of that program, and I know they haven't because they're already worrying about how they'll pay for college for two kids.
As far as I know, most births are covered by the mother's medicaid or the adopting parent's private insurance. If the mother was keeping her child, medicaid would still be the coverage method, so I'm not sure what that has to do with anything?
APs have to show proof of insurance and sufficient income to pass their home study. They would not be approved to adopt if they did not have private or employer-paid insurance (or were on medicaid) and were on food stamps. Adopted children are covered by the AP's insurance, not by medicaid. I believe foster children are covered under medicaid while they are foster children, but they aren't after the adoption is finalized (I might be wrong on that though).
I do understand your point about providing that money to the mother in order for her to keep her child. However, that money would then - to be fair - have to be provided to every pregnant woman, would it not? Otherwise, it would open the argument that someone would have to make the determination of who qualifies: who would make that judgment? The government? An agency? Would $11,000 (roughly the amount of the tax credit) be enough for her to care for the child for the next 18 years? Would whatever foster parents get per month (sorry, I'm not sure what that is) be enough for every woman in every situation? Would only single women qualify? What about struggling two-parent families? Would they only get that money once all the available resources (food stamps, WIC, housing assistance, medicaid, etc.) were being utilized, or should it be given to them as soon as they say "I'm pregnant" or "I'm not sure I can keep this child if I don't have extra help"?. In what ways could it be assured that the money was spent on the child? If the funds are expressly to keep the mother from placing her child for adoption, should she be required to produce receipts? I think Foster Parents have to. Adoptive parents are required to, down to the penny (for the tax credit).
Finally - if your daughter is too proud to use food stamps, wouldn't she be too proud to take money from the government?