>>>>>Four kids? I guess I didn't know that.
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>>>>Two are of my own blood and the other two are adopted.
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>>>One more of the VFP developers I know have 2 kids adopted. They originally wanted to adopt a family of 3, but there were complications with the older boy.
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>>If I could afford it I would love to have more kids.
>>My wife said we have all we can handle. :)
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>Out of curiousity, how would you rate the adoption process? I don't know anything at all about it, but I hear it's a huge pain and costs a ton. I guess that might not be a *bad* thing, because then they know that somebody is really serious about the child.

I guess it depends.
There are many adoption agencies. Public private, domestic and foreign. You can probably guess which ones will be cheaper.
It can cost any where from a few hundreds of dollars to ten of thousands. We adopted domestic kids, kids who are already in the states so it cuts down on traveling, lawyer fees and paper work.

After your application is approved, you must have to go through background check, which can take up to two three months. My wife and I waited about six weeks. They check everything, criminal, finances, legal status, medical etc....

Most, if not all adoption agency require you to attend adoption counciling group after the process is completed, especially if it's your first adopted child. And number of session varies too.