What is less expensive, having a surrogate mother or going through an adoption?

I am having a hard time deciding whether to go with an adoption or having a surrogate. I want to start planning because maybe within the next year i will have to choose either of. Thanks.What is less expensive, having a surrogate mother or going through an adoption?
There is more to surrogacy and adoption than the cost. I would recommend that you do a lot of research before you pursue either option. Money should not be a deciding factor.
To the "ew" momma... Congratulations on being able to bear children. Not everyone is so lucky. Your "ew" made me "ew" you.



Anyway... to what's important. I am an unmarried male. Because of my situation, it would be almost equally expensive to adopt than to use a surrogate mother.



I agree with the previous poster, who mentioned that money shouldn't be the deciding factor... at least not the most important. I think it should depend on your situation, the possibilities that you have to qualify as an adoptive parent, and your location.What is less expensive, having a surrogate mother or going through an adoption?
I'm pretty sure adoption is less expensive. If you live in a country without national healthcare, you have to pay all the bills for your surrogate which can be a lot. It would be extremely unlikely that your health insurance would cover a surrogate.
Generally, I believe surrogacy is more expensive.

You usually pay the mother's hospital and medical fees, as well as a payment. (at least the ones that I've known)

Adoption generally costs 15-30,000 grand here.

The surrogacy costs more like 50,000 and 60,000
Adopting through foster care doesn't usually cost a thing. If you have a family member or friend who could be a surrogate I am sure that would be far less than a stranger.
I'm not sure but maybe you could try adopting through the foster system? I see that on the show Adoption Stories all the time. Good luck.
it might be close to same process and cost. One still needs to get adoption homestudy which is the major cost in adoption.
ew... i wouldn't want someone else carrying my child... and besides... why not adopt one that already needs a home?
Neither - surrogacy and adoption both screw kids up!



Do you have to pay to adopt a child?



Yes, more massively than handing over any amount of money can make up for.



My aparents have had to watch as their kid goes through all of the agony and trauma that comes with being adopted. They have had absolutely no help in dealing with any of this - as all good parents do, they winged it. It's testament to their brilliance that I'm even remotely sane (hush you lot at the back! :p) and a functioning member of society.



Adoption screws kids up. It's not a fact that the adoption mongers like seeing said in public, but it's true. Not every kid, obviously - some on here are happy to've been adopted, but a surprisingly high percentage of us grow up deeply screwed up.



I was abandoned to adoption at seven months old. I honestly and truly wish that I'd been aborted instead of abandoned to adoption, so please be prepared for the fact that any kid you adopt could grow up (I'm 37, so definitely and legally a "grown up" in pretty much everywhere) to be as screwed up as me.



I didn't have a bad adoption - my afamily are the best I could ever have chosen... but if I'd been able to choose, and I'd known then what I know now, I'd've chosen to be aborted before birth instead, 'cause at least that way the lifetime of agony I've gone through would've been over in minutes, instead of the decades that I've been suffering for now.



Please read back through a few months worth of resolved questions in here http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index?sid=2鈥?/a> and then go read through all of the books and links listed at http://7rin-on-adoption.dreamwidth.org/t鈥?/a>



Comprehend that lot, and you'll be about ready to adopt. :)