Can you get paid for giving a baby up for adoption?

Question

You people are so quick to throw stones. I never said I was prego. I wouldn't think of getting prego just to get a paycheck. It was more or less a question wondering if you can be compensated for giving the "gift of life" to someone who would do anything for it. GEEZ! chill out

Answer 1

No, it is completely illegal to pay a woman or placing her child for adoption. A surrogate can be compensated, but this is because she is truely carrying someone elses child, and they are sort of "borrowing her womb" for 9 months (sorry to sound crude), and she is expected to go to regular appointmnets, take medication, and often have many injections. There are also usually limits on how much she can be compensated.

Answer 2

No, but if your looking to get some money, you can become a

surrogate. I guess but I would really look into it because I know that the want to be parents pay for the hospital visit the delivery and your meds, but getting paid to have a child I don't think so.

Answer 3

Honestly, you do not actually get paid for giving a baby up for adoption.  Some adoptive parents/agencies pay or provide maternity clothes, vitamins, and doctors bills.  

Some people do get paid, but it is not legal.

Answer 4

No, it doesn't work like that. Potential aparents pay for services provided by professionals throughout the adoption process. Like attorneys, counselors, medical/hospital for both the aparents and the birth mom. Certain other living/clothing expenses for the bmom can be paid as well. All adoption circumstances are different so it just depends.

Answer 5

Sure you can get paid if you are an immoral and unethical person dealing with the same kind of person.

Answer 6

not that i am aware of at least not in florida.  i think medical and living expenses can be paid though.

Answer 7

Yes, if it is done illegally.  A woman in my (upper-middle class) neighborhood sold her grandchild to a couple.  She negotiated an open adoption for herself but not for her daughter.  She got her just desserts when the couple closed the adoption and moved "somewhere" many miles away.

The harm done to the mother and the child is beyond my comprehension.

Answer 8

As far as I know, No you can't.  You can be compensated for medical and living costs but babies are not things, to be bought and sold like that.

Answer 9

Is money more a concern for you than knowing that a life that you have brought into this world has a good home?  I guess I am confused as to why you would even ask such a thing

Answer 10

I don't think you can get paid for giving a baby up for adoption that would be like selling your baby which is illegal. You can get paaid however for being a seregate mother, they usually pay for medical bills sometimes rent and neccesities.

Answer 11

No you can't.

Answer 12

not legally

Answer 13

what you speak of is called surrogacy.

i have a question for you:  do you ever think that maybe the gift (child) might not want to be bred solely for the purpose of providing income for the bmom or to help an infertile couple parent?  or that the whole "gift" facade fed to infertile couples by the adoption machine is simply to bait them into paying tens-of-thousands of dollars to adopt a child? and what happens when this "gift" morphs into a little terror or a flippant adolescent like most kids do?

i think often that the view of the adoptee is absent when these claims are made and very rarely do people get past the "cute and cuddly" baby they fantasized about. children (not gifts) are humans with feelings, needs and fears. they are not cute little trinkets from FAO Schwartz!

Answer 14

Yep. I knew a girl who did this because she was raped and was a drug addict. The parents gave her  money throughout her pregnancy and when the baby was born....healthy! She had stopped using and had been in Rehab most of her pregnancy..a lump sum was paid. She graduated from Rehab started a new life and then relapsed and spent all the money on cocaine. Lost her job and her car and is on the streets. It still was a wise decision for her too give the baby up..she knew what was going to happen. The adopted parents write and communicate about the baby. Letters and photo's because that was the conditions. It IS legal and there were lawyers involved in the entire process. I am not sure if any money was in the contract because it is always a risk to adoptee parents. Surrogate or a regular adoption they use the money as a surety that will intice the mother not to bond with the baby and change her mind later. Lots of awaiting adoptee parents lose alot of money and sometimes more than one attempt. One Surrogate I know KEPT her baby and

the awaiting adoptee's lost alot of money.  The mother always can back out...that's why alot of awaiting couples go through a tough time finding a newborn to adopt.

Answer 15

Sure, it is called surrogacy, people have been selling black market babies for eons.

It is sad to me that you care so much about the "gift of life" (an actual human being, being given like a punch bowl)

to infertiles who really want their own baby anyway, and no where in your question do you even consider that a child ordered and sold would have feelings about that.

It is not ethical to create a child with the intent to abandon it, but people do it all the time.  It is part of what makes America   erm what?  uummm, I am not sure what...

Other countries don't make it as easy, but we love money.  Yay money.

Even being a Gestational Surrogate (no direct DNA link) you exchange DNA with the child and then it experiences abandonment when born.  But who cares?  I mean it is all about infertile people, who cares what happens to the children?  and you can make some pocket money.  Awesome.

Answer 16

Not legally.

Though women can get their living and/or medical expenses paid, by either the agency or the adoptive parents, in some states (not all). Which is just one more thing that needs to reformed in adoption....

Answer 17

State to state may vary, but no you cannot get paid to give up your child.  You may be compensated for resonable medical costs and costs of living while pregnant by the adoptive parents.  But selling your child is a felony.

Good luck

Answer 18

No, you get no money to give a child up for adoption.  Some states offer subsidy payments to foster parents, but that is about it...

Answer 19

WOW, all your worried about is getting paid, good thing you giving your baby up for adoption.

Answer 20

only if your job title is social worker lawyer or Agency employee

Answer 21

not directly no, but indirectly yes, if you need financial help the adoptive family can do this for you....pay bills etc.