How do you make your parents adopt?

Not going to happen. To “make” someone take on the responsibility of raising, caring, and footing the expense and time for adopting a child would be a reversal of freedom of choice. The average child costs around 180,000 dollars to raise and send off at the age of eighteen. Not to mention that an adoption would cost money, babies cost loads of money in diapers (at $30-60 a week for two years that is 3 to 6 thousand in diapers alone, and this cost can quadruple if one doesn’t or can’t buy them in bulk) Medical care is an extra 100-300 per month. And then you have babysitters if you want to get a job to pay for the extra expenses and still be able to retire by the time the baby is old enough to go to college (which is another Huge chunk of money).

But money aside, you can’t force anyone to do anything they don’t want to do or that they are not directly responsible for. If this were there own child that they gave birth to then, yes, it is there responsibility to raise that child. Adoption is wonderful for those that can do it or manage it into their lives. I hope some day to adopt a child with my wife, but we need to be in an outstanding position financially to do so (In the Bay Area here that would mean we would need to be making close to 200k+ to afford everything besides an adoption and that is without another child). There are less expensive places in America and there are ways to make child rearing work, but that takes a heck of a lot of sacrifice. And sacrifice can’t be forced on someone. That would be the equivalent of telling your parents that they are being evicted and moved into a small apartment without any recourse or say in the matter.