Adoption agencies are/or at least use to be just as bad, about charging more for the adoption of a most wanted type of child. My husband and I could not have our own blood children. A couple whom we did not know, was in a situation and wanted to give their 10th child up for adoption. We went to meet with them to talk to them about this little girl baby that they were planning on giving up. This little girl was 18 mo. old at the time, this was in the year of 1965. We did adopt this precious little girl,who is now 45 yrs. old. (This was an independent adoption) , which is an adoption where you get a child outside of the agency, but the agency still does all the red tape on the adopters and you still go to court where a judge okays and finalizes the adoption. This adoption was done through th L.A. County of Adoptions. It took about 2 1/2 yrs. for this adoption to get to court, mainly because we were very young at the time, and also because of the fact that I had just been through cancer/radiation treatments for female problems and the adoption agency/judge and etc. were just trying to be sure that I was going to survive. So now jumping forward 2 1/2 yrs. w/good reports from my doctors, we were granted custody of our little girl, whom was already in our home with us. That very same day that our adoption was finalized, we left the court house and went to the L.A. County Adoption Agency, and said "Okay, this adoption is now final, now we want to start proceedings on another adoption, this time straight through your agency". Believe me, sometimes independent adoptions can get pretty spooky, like one time the biogogical mother, about a year after we had our daughter, came to us saying that now she wasn't sure, and may want her child back. A lot of other incidences like this were going on often, such as, them saying, "we do not want this child" " Yes we have decided to take our child back" " No we do not want her" and so on. It got so bad that our lawyer ended up telling us before the adoption was finalized that even if for some reason, the judge would not grant us custody, that he (the lawyer would make certain that these people) w/not ever be handed this child back into their custody. Well here I go rambling on again, but I just can't help it. So back to us going straight to the agency from the court house, this is what happened next........This time around, since this time we would have a choice and were very young and not ever going to be able to bare our own child, we wanted to adopt a newborn caucassion boy child. We were told that newborns were the most highly called for, and that we did not have a high enough income coming in for one of these top priority children, but that they had plenty of mixed races or older children, or handicapped children that they would love to have us adopt? We were only 20 years old at the time, and wanted to experience being parents of a newborn. We became very angry at this way this was being done, and ended up by telling the agency that we felt that they were running a black market on the sale of newborn babies. We ended up walking out of the L.A. County Adoption agency and never went back.
