Reply #54: How have people gotten burned by this?

[truedelphi]

There are so many many children in this nation who are adoptable - if the family that wants to adopt doesn't want a blue eyed- cherub-in-appearance type of youngster.

Yes many of our kids who need to be adopted are the same skin color as the President. But heaven forbid that people be forced to adopt children without blue eyes, or white skin, or who happen to be older than six years old.

The people so desperate to adopt kids in Russia are often people who don't want to take on those many children who are available right here. I have a great deal of sympathy for people who struggle through helping kids whose background is questionable and may include such things as having birth parents who were both alcoholics. But I have little sympathy for people who claim that they "had to" adopt outside of this country.