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Originally Posted by CShine
Obviously, this topic has some very racially-charged angles and I don't pretend to know how everyone thinks about them. That said, I do think this is a very interesting subject which lies outside the realm of the usual political squabbles and I'm curious to know what everyone's impression is.
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It'd be interesting to see what kinds of problems the children that are not being adopted in the US have. For example, there may be a perception that kids available for adoption in the US are more likely to have ED/LD problems associated with parental drug/alcohol abuse, while children overseas may not have that stigma attached to them. Drug/alcohol abuse, of course, cuts across racial lines, but the odds of a child being brought in from either China or Romania having chemical-induced medical problems would be lower than a child available for adoption in the US might have, regardless of racial factors, since China and Romania are not considered to have a large drug problem. Another possible thing would be perception of a risk of HIV. For example, I doubt that children from a country with a really high HIV rate would be attractive adoption candidates.
Regardless of racial characteristics, I'd think that a child whose biological parents were not drug addicts or high-risk for HIV would be more adoptable than a child whose parents were drug addicts and who were at high risk for HIV, even if the first child was black and the second child was white with blonde hair and blue eyes.