eli5: When you adopt a child, why do you have to pay so much money?

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This was a question I had back when I was in elementary school. I had asked my mom but she had no clue. In my little brain I thought it was wrong to buy children, but now I’m wondering if that’s not actually the case. What is that money being spent on?

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The way my parents explained it to me(adopted kid here, along with a brother who is adopted) is that it’s really just a way to support the organization that is helping with the adoption process, and especially with overseas adoptions there’s a huge amount of work that has to go into the process that the average person probably wouldn’t be able to figure out.

Granted I was adopted in the late 80’s and my brother in the early 90’s so things may have changed a lot since then.

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