/u/LadyLudo19 on Please help us adopt a newborn with a private adoption agency for $55K in the US. We don’t want to foster or adopt through the government bc the kids are older. We are first time parents and don’t think we have enough experience. We want

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Yeah, I think fostering young children is not something to just go into lightly and I appreciate how the OOP feels it would be better if they had more experience first. It can create a bad situation if someone just jumps in headfirst without knowing. Is it maybe a little beggary to ask for donations? Yeah. But shaming them because they don’t feel capable of jumping into fostering older children isn’t really a flex.