What does the domestic “program fee” pay for?
Voluntarily-released infant placements by Adoption Associates, Inc. are divided into two categories: designated placements and agency-matched placements. Designated placements are adoptions where the adopting couple and the birth parents have had contact before the agency begins to serve the birth parents. Agency-matched placements occur when the birth parents come to the agency and then select their child’s adoptive family from the profiles available through the agency. In agency-matched cases, the administrative fee of $9,000 is added to the time and expenses incurred in serving the birth parent(s). In designated placements, $5,400 is deducted from the administrative fee. The administrative fee covers approximately two-thirds of our total costs for statewide Yellow Pages and other advertising, administrative and support staff salaries, agency insurance, development and publication of resource materials for birth parents, legal services, travel expenses, telephone/Internet expenses, a
Voluntarily-released infant placements by Adoption Associates, Inc. are divided into two categories: designated placements and agency-matched placements. Designated placements are adoptions where the adopting couple and the birth parents have had contact before the agency begins to serve the birth parents. Agency-matched placements occur when the birth parents come to the agency and then select their child’s adoptive family from the profiles available through the agency. In agency-matched cases, the administrative fee of $9,000 is added to the time and expenses incurred in serving the birth parent(s). In designated placements, $9,000 is deducted from the administrative fee. The administrative fee covers approximately two-thirds of our total costs for statewide Yellow Pages and other advertising, administrative and support staff salaries, agency insurance, development and publication of resource materials for birth parents, legal services, travel expenses, telephone/Internet expenses, a
