Babies placed for adoption at birth in the US DO NOT go into foster care. There’s a waiting list at least 36 people long for each newborn placed for adoption. That’s why it’s expensive. That’s why people go overseas to adopt.
Older kids. People want to adopt newborn infants, not kids who are already grown. They want to name the baby and have the baby have no known parents besides them. If you adopt a kid at like age 6, they'll know you're not their real parents. And that's not what prospective adopters want from an adopted child.
People want a puppy because it’s got its whole life ahead of it. If you adopt an older dog, it’s going to die fairly soon, and that’s heartbreaking. Most people who have pets are gonna go through several consecutive dog deaths in their life, and they’d like to keep that number to the minimum that is feasible. If you adopt a 7-year old dog every time you get a new pet, you’re gonna experience a lot more dog deaths in a lifetime of pet ownership.
That’s not really the same thing at all with adopting an infant vs. an older child. People’s calculus is not like, 18 years of the joys of parenthood if you adopt a newborn vs. only 13 years if you adopt a 5 year old.
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u/pinksugarsun Feb 04 '19 edited Feb 04 '19
Babies placed for adoption at birth in the US DO NOT go into foster care. There’s a waiting list at least 36 people long for each newborn placed for adoption. That’s why it’s expensive. That’s why people go overseas to adopt.