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Gee Sarah, our experience is so different it's amazing to me. Most families that we know were connected & placed within a year and there were no huge fees. I think we're still one of the 'highest' with our total costs including travel, etc at $14K. Ours is a fully open integrated adoption.
Many were through our own networking with training from our agency though some were made directly through them.
Also, Virginia does now have a requirement that all family life education in the public schools actively teach adoption as an option in unplanned pregnancy. Our local schools now show a video made by and produced by local birth parents talking about adoption.
If you'd like to know who we worked with, please feel free to PM. I don't want to break any rules, it's just that our experience was so very different. BTW DH was also AD/USN when we adopted, now retired.
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Regina
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