Price of parenting: Who ever said love don't cost a thing?

 
By Paula Burkes Erickson
Published: July 15, 2007

The couple who adopted Crystal Drwenski's newborn daughter seven years ago had been parents for one week, she said, when the Oklahoma County law firm handling their adoption billed them an additional $15,000 they weren't counting on.

They'd already paid $15,000.

"That was a hard thing for me to hear,” Drwenski said. She said she claimed minimal expenses as birth mother and didn't realize the adoptive parents w...


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