>exceed the supply of adoptive homes. The number of adoptions happening per year doesn't actually tell you the supply of adoptive homes. The number of adoptive

>exceed the supply of adoptive homes. The number of adoptions happening per year doesn't actually tell you the supply of adoptive homes. The number of adoptive homes might be much much larger than the number of adoptions that happens. Especially if potentially adoptive parents are no longer scared away by multi-year waiting lists. If we add in government subsidization of adoption expenses, or even pay adoptive parents, the number of adoptive parents could grow a lot. Some countries are already paying parents to have biological kids[1]; paying parents to adopt seems even more likely. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_bonus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_bonus