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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember  watching  a program (60 minutes? )? where a couple from Germany adopted 2 healthy black children as babies from the US.  Less stigma and prejudice in Germany than in the  US.

For some reason, white people in the US do not want healthy adoptable black babies.  Some even call themselves liberals. [/quote]

What? Where are all of these healthy adoptable black babies? I don't think you know what you're talking about.

First, the birth mother picks the parents. I'm 100% certain a birth mother would have plenty of potential adoptive parents to choose from, white or black, for a healthy baby. Second, are you talking about babies in foster care? Again, babies are the easiest to place. Babies USUALLY go to family members. Otherwise, foster parents are quite willing to take in a healthy baby over an older child any day. 
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Race is no longer as much of a factor as it used to be.  Many white families have no issue taking a child of a different race nor do other races.  However, the adoption numbers have been way down over the years and adoption is very hard.  People who would go internationally cannot do so as easily anymore and they have turned to domestic.  Any infant placed is generally a foster to adopt and there are some but not many and usually they go to foster parents who have been waiting or willing to foster and only adopt if it comes to that.

For kids sake, it is easiest for them to be placed in the same race/culture but obviously that is not possible or not always want the birth parents want or if its foster care kids go to the first available home or other factors and birthparents generally get no say.[/quote]

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