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Travel expenses can get to be alot of money and not being able to travel does not have anything to do with raising a child til 18. Considering you can get an adoption subsidy to help with expenses til they are 18 BUT get nothing for traveling in some states then it really isn't fair to say since the OP can't travel, they shouldn't adopt. But there are way to budget travel...in our case we ended up going for 3 weeks one time and 2 1/2 wks the other time so it was expensive.
In our daughters case we traveled twice to Idaho from Florida and in total probably spent 7k in travel expenses out of our pocket but got 2k back. Unless you have money saved up or can get it somewhere it's not cheap traveling these days. Plus you have attorney fees (which luckily my current job reimbursed me for cause that was another 2500). And then there is time off your job (if you work) and other issues. And until the child is placed with you then you get no money for anything....and can't get travel expenses back until after the adoption is finalized in the subsidy agreement.
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