Adoptive parents don't know if birth parents will really sign consents to surrendering custody until after the child is born. The wait for an infant is usually considerably longer. Adoptive parents have to pay agency fees. Adoptive parents have the satisfaction of knowing that they are providing a home for a child who will be difficult to place and may grow up in foster care. There is no cost to adopting special needs children.
Subsidies are available to help care for children.
Four-year tuition to State of Florida University System is available to Special Needs adoptees. The child will be older and may be carrying emotional scars from abuse and neglect as well as from frequent moves from one foster home to the next. A child can be placed in an adoptive home more quickly. Children very often come into foster care while they are young. The child doesn't languish in temporary care until Termination of Parental Rights occurs.