Not to be a dick, but I imagine you are underestimating the costs associated with having a child.
If your sacrifices are: not putting a cam in your Camaro, Keeping the 42" LCD instead of upgrading to a 55", or cutting out that $1,000 vaca you had planned, prepare to be fucked and in need of government assistance.
If your sacrifice is something more like not buying that brand new GT500 you were about to pick up, then maybe.
Do you have an extra 20k sitting around? I hope so cause you will need it.
Look for an added 300 per month to upgrade your insurance to family plan. Probably 2k worth of copays in the first year.
$1,500 worth of formula
clothes, bedding, toys, etc...... you get the idea
Again, I am REALLY not trying to be a dick. It just seems like the 10k worth of legal BS involved is almost a buffer to weed out the people that shouldn't adopt. Yes, I am of the opinion that if you require gov assitance to raise a child, you should not be able to adopt