How to Adopt a baby or newborn in Ohio?

The reason why it costs so much to buy a baby is because demand far exceeds supply Adoption agencies will justify the fees but the real truth is it's down to greed, playing on potential adopters desire to have a baby so will use coercive tactics to 'persuade' mothers to surrender. This link gives an idea of current coercive tactics used http://open.salon.com/blog/jessica_delbalzo/2012/03/31/the_5_most_coercive_aspects_of_modern_adoption The tactics used in the BSE time are these although some are still used today http://babyscoopera.com/adoption-articles/adoption-coercion-tactics/ You are clearly uneducated and referring to expectant mothers is offensive. The offensive term is used for mothers who have surrendered. Mothers who surrender don't financially gain from surrendering and they emotionally pay for the rest of their lives. Also don't confuse mothers who surrender with surrogate mothers. Even then surrogate mothers are only supposed to charge for reasonable expenses. In the UK surrogate mothers can't legally make money from being a surrogate so can only be paid out of pocket expenses. You understand babies are human beings so instead of wanting to buy a commodity (the baby) why don't you do the decent thing and encourage mothers to parent. They don't sell they babies like you seem to believe. It is rare for a mother to go through pregnancy when she really doesn't want to be a parent. Far more surrender because they are poor, single, still in education, earn a low income, feel they don't have a support, they don't have a choice. Instead of buying a baby that has a mother who should be encourage to parent why don't you adopt from foster care which is much cheaper and those are the children who deserve a family. *Shaking my head in despair that you are so uneducated*

There are not thousands of babies needing a loving home. There are thousands of children past infancy who do. People wait in line for babies. Don't kid yourself. You may not want to pay for a baby, but you will. If you find a birth mother, you will pay her living arrangements until the baby is born. You'll pay for your home-study. Then you'll pay the legal fees. That will probably be more than 25,000 in the end. You obviously don't know how to use google. You need to type in more than "adoption".

Here goes. I don't mean to come across as blunt, I just want to get the information across in a very straightforward way. The thousands of children who need homes are older children in foster care, or babies with severe health issues. Healthy infants don't need homes, because they get snapped up as soon as they're born. There are far more people who want to adopt them than there are babies to go around. If you want a newborn, your best bet is to go through an agency, and be prepared to wait as long as necessary. You already know how expensive this is, but it's not exactly "buying a newborn". It's paying the expenses & salaries of the people who work full time matching up adoptable newborns with those who want to adopt them, taking care of paperwork so everything's legal, etc. Would you do that for free, year after year? No? Neither would they. They offer a service, and there are plenty of people who are willing and able to pay for that service. Sometimes these aren't the richest parents, but those who are willing to make the most sacrifices financially. (I'm not defending adoption agencies in all things, because I believe that many of them are guilty of exploiting and coercing birthmothers. I'm just saying that they need to cover their costs just like any other business.) EDIT: "Why am I paying labor fees for the mother? That does not make sense to me, you must be talking about those people who volunteer their body to be the birth mother for financial gain." What? You honestly expect a mother to pay tens of thousands of dollars in medical fees for prenatal visits, ultrasounds, and delivery, just to hand her baby over for free to someone else? The mother not only loses her baby, but subsidizes the adopter--really? Even if those costs are paid by the taxpayer or private insurance, it's only fair for the one who gets the baby to reimburse the cost of bringing the baby into the world. Now you're starting to make me think you're just a very clever troll, having fun on April Fool's Day.