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Jen0125 posted...

"The average cost of adoption is dependent on several variables, like the type of adoption, the adoption professional and other unique details of your situation. Each of these factors can influence typical adoption costs. Generally, for families adopting a baby through a private agency, the average cost of adoption in the U.S. is somewhere around $70,000. While costs may vary on an individual basis, families typically spend in this range on the adoption process."

https://www.americanadoptions.com/adopt/average-adoption-cost

How is the financial barrier alone "not hard?"

Adopting a kid is hard. For many of the same reasons, though, finding somebody to adopt a kid is relatively easy. It's a matter of supply and demand: There's more demand than supply, so there will still be sufficient demand even if the supply increases considerably.

Though, as you touched on, that does make it more likely that less healthy and/or less white babies will be passed over, which is especially a problem given that a disproportionate number of the children given up for adoption will be less healthy and/or less white due to the socioeconomic realities of whether or not a given mother is able to raise a kid herself.