Adoption: Selling babies?????

[Ideal08]

I was watching some Fox news show last night (I forget the name of it, but the host is really arrogant). They were talking about adoption, and reported that the average cost to adopt a BABY in the US is $35-45,000. Is it just me, or is that crazy? What, we're SELLING children now?? And we wonder why group homes are over crowded? The $45,000 that I pay the GOVERNMENT for that child could very well go into a college fund. And if I can't afford to give you $45,000 on the spot, does that make me a bad parent, I don't deserve a child?? What exactly is this money for? Now, that's not the cost for older children, just babies. And then I wonder if they do that because babies are in such high demand, and that's a weed-out function? I don't know, I just know it sounds completely insane to me that people are paying for children. It doesn't cost that much to birth the child yourself! Selling babies... I don't much know what to say about that.

What do y'all think about that? How exactly, do they justify that price? Does anyone here work in Social Services that might be able to shed some light on this subject. Because right now, this sounds like some mess to me.