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Obviously Mr. hunt has never been through teh adoption agency nightmare. The law may say it is permissible to have interracial adoption but just try to get one through the system. In states such as Connecticut there is a preference for homosexual adoptive parents and for homosexual foster parents. I have a question for Mr. Hunt "If there is such a dearth of heterosexual adoptive parents why are the waiting lists for a child so damn long?" No there are not long waiting lists for children who have aids or some other disease that means a parent knows up front that they are adopting a child under sentence of death. My late wife and knew some people that did adopt such a child but not everyone has that high a ration of sainthood.

The children going to homosexual adoptive parents are the ones for whom the waiting lists are in place. Homosexual adoptive parents do not have to wait. This is the affirmitive action nightmare that is harming little ones.

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This is the affirmitive action nightmare that is harming little ones.

In 1998, the year that my wife and I adopted our sons from the foster system in Connecticut, there were a total of 55,000 children in "the system", approximately 4,500 of whom had been TPR'ed and were available for adoption. (TPR=Termination of Parental Rights). There were a total of 88 adoptive families approved that year. In our class of 12 families, there were no singles or "alternative" couples.

As we went through the homestudy process (more intrusive than an airport proctology exam), we were asked to identify what we could accept in a child in terms of age, race, health, mental capacity, etc. We were very open at this point - anywhere from birth to 10 years old, race was not a concern, health was a medium concern, mental capacity was less of a concern because we had been Special Olympics coaches for quite a few years.

We were asked within three months of completing our certification to adopt a pair of biological brothers of hispanic extraction with learning disabilities. We said yes. They're about the color of a cup of coffee, dark - one sugar. :-) We're about the color of the cream. Race was never the big issue you seem to think it is.

The real issue is that there are far fewer families willing to adopt than there are children who need adopting. I've been in the midst of this and some of the kids I know have been shuttled from place to place all their lives, and then tossed out on their own when they turn 18. I've rarely seen a suckier situation.