Nope, this really isn\u2019t a philosophical post \u2013 it\u2019s just a straight out humanistic discussion on the literal costs of love. <\/p>\n
A friend of mine wrote to me the other day saying \u201cI wish I could afford to adopt\u201d \u2013 and I was thinking, what a SAD reflection on the realities of life.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m about to write a 7,000$ check today for adoption costs (1300 of that is just to get some documents translated). We\u2019ve spent almost double that already out of pocket already, now that we have depleted all of our savings that we set aside for the adoption we\u2019re now having to take loans out to pay for the adoption costs\u2026<\/p>\n
Children around the world, starving, dying, sleeping on dirt floors, eating mud, no mother, no father, suffering from treatable and curable diseases, and the literal costs associated with adopting and bringing them into your family, to care for them, love them and give them a hope for a better life is $15,000-$30,000 dollars (that\u2019s a low estimate). <\/p>\n
But we keep reminding ourselves, as a parent you will pay anything for the health and safety of your children, and the health and safety of our Haitian children cannot be given a price, it\u2019s priceless\u2026 so while frustrating, and a bit scary to be creating all these loans that will take a long time to pay back, we\u2019ll continue to spend whatever we need to spend to bring our children home, and give all of our children the very best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nope, this really isn\u2019t a philosophical post \u2013 it\u2019s just a straight out humanistic discussion on the literal costs of love. A friend of mine wrote to me the other day saying \u201cI wish I could afford to adopt\u201d \u2013 and I was thinking, what a SAD reflection on the realities of life. I\u2019m about … Continue reading “Whoever said love doesn\u2019t cost anything\u2026.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}