I always hear that it is very hard to adopt a baby and that you need to meet all sorts of requirements. Is it the government setting these requirements? Is it individual agencies? Are the agencies private entities? Are there a bunch of babies sitting around in orphanages waiting for people to meet requirements?
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It’s a case of optimization vs maximization. You could maximize adoptions if you relaxed requirements. But you’d also maximize sex trafficking victims. Or you’d just contribute to the original problem – unprepared parents who don’t want a kid anymore.
So you have to take protect against that even if it means lower adoption rates.
Some of the regulation is government mandated. Some is enforced by private agencies who don’t want to be sued/charged into oblivion by any district attorney.
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