ADOPTION. ATTORNEY AND teacher wife desperately seek to adopt infant. Please help us, All expenses paid, Call . . .
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Catholic Charities expects a minimum “donation” of $5,000; with legal fees and other expenses, it comes to about the same cost as a private adoption. An adoption through Easter House, which is probably the most expensive private agency in the area, costs about $23,000; $2,000 of that is a non-refundable “initial service fee.” A letter over executive director Seymour Kurtz’s signature claims that in 1987, “those of our applicants who received our children waited for their baby the following time period from the effective date of their application: 34% within six months and 100% in an average of 8 months and 18 days.” But there are no guarantees that anyone putting up the initial $2,000 will be found suitable.
