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Hopeful couples discover that adoption or gestational surrogacy costs from tens of thousands of dollars to more than $100,000. (And that's on top of the thousands of dollars many have already shelled out on fertility treatments, to say nothing about the emotional toll.)
Of the family-related âlife eventsâ with significant implications for taxes, adoption of a child ranks among the potentially most expensive. Most readers of Adoptive Families who answered the magazineâs request to report the costs of a completed adoption gave figures between $25,000 and $30,000 (tinyurl.com/yjxlvre).