Comments on: Illinois Budget Cuts Affect Children http://fost-adopt.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/illinois-budget-cuts-affect-children News and information for those planning to adopt through foster care as well as firsthand accounts of those who have. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:12:20 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: bsavage http://fost-adopt.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/illinois-budget-cuts-affect-children/comment-page-1#comment-933 bsavage Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:29:55 +0000 http://foster-adopt.www.adoptionblogs.com/2008/08/30/illinois-budget-cuts-affect-children#comment-933 I just read your article of 7/8/07 on "How to Pay Your Adoption Agency". I wish I had read this 16 months ago before handing over $6,000 a small adoption agency in Missouri (Small World). After signing on and being given their paperwork to complete, we found them largely unavailable and much of the information given us about the procedure regarding what they could offer, was untrue. We fired them within 2 months. We persued our money for months with no refund (a few dollars were returned for post-placement but after so many mailings stating our case to their "board" the little bit they sent was a wash. We moved on to another agency with exactly what this article recommends...lttle money up front, and brought home a beautiful infant baby girl 8months later! Great advice! I just read your article of 7/8/07 on “How to Pay Your Adoption Agency”. I wish I had read this 16 months ago before handing over $6,000 a small adoption agency in Missouri (Small World). After signing on and being given their paperwork to complete, we found them largely unavailable and much of the information given us about the procedure regarding what they could offer, was untrue. We fired them within 2 months. We persued our money for months with no refund (a few dollars were returned for post-placement but after so many mailings stating our case to their “board” the little bit they sent was a wash. We moved on to another agency with exactly what this article recommends…lttle money up front, and brought home a beautiful infant baby girl 8months later! Great advice!

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