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Old 04-21-2009, 03:02 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Hey Hollie ~ First off it all depends on what type of adoption that you are interested in, whether it be private adoptions foreign adoption or public adoption.

Private adoption can range anywhere from about $12000-20000

Foreign adoption can range starting at around $18000 and go up to about 30000 (my cousins did this)

Public adoption can pretty much be free through Children's Aid Society I think they charge about $200 for the one course you have to take

My suggestion is that you attend an open house at one of the local CAS and possibly at a foreign agency as well to determine which route you want to do
You could also foster to adopt but the risk with that is that the children are given back to their Birth family.

Another little timbit is that we when you pay for an adoption you can claim I think it is up to $10000 on your income tax as well so that can help with some of the money back. It's kinda like when you do IVF in Ontario you can claim that on your income tax to you don't get the whole amount back but we ended up getting about 20% back

Hope that helps and if I can help you anymore just let me know,
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