A system that permits a market in babies priced at several orders of magnitude beyond what would allow vulnerable pregnant people to provide stability for their own children—is not a system that promotes child welfare *at all.* 🥚
@ssteingraber1.bsky.social🥚 From $90K to $160K:
inflation comes for the cost of buying babies in Utah.
Damn, adoption sticker shock is worse than diesel fuel rn.
(“Outrageous” is the right adjective but it’s modifying the wrong noun.)
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$160,000 for a single adoption in Utah? Report sheds light on ‘outrageous’ costs
Four years ago, an adoption with a private agency could set prospective parents back anywhere from $30,000 to $60,000, according to an estimate from the Children’s Bureau within the U.S. Department of...