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"Foreigners Adopting More African-American Babies," by Kimberly Russel, Voice of America, http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-03-01-voa1.cfm, 1 March 2005.

"part of the problem is Americans fear losing their child to birth parents," by JI7, Democratic Underground, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1273679#1273870, 1 March 2005.

The U.S. State Department says the number of couples adopting American babies from other countries has more than doubled over the last decade. At the same time some Americans don't adopt babies from other countries, saying there's a lack of babies up for adoption in the United States. But in reality, there are plenty of American babies who need a home. Most of them are African-American.

Allison Drake and Earl Stroud wanted to adopt a child. For a White baby, they would have had to wait for several years. Allison and Earl live in Ottawa, Canada. They did not have to wait to adopt Ethan, who is from Chicago, Illinois, where more than 80 percent of babies available for adoption are Black.

Increasingly, Black children are finding homes in Germany, France and especially Canada, which puzzles Earl Stroud.

"I just don't understand why American couples go to China and Romania and places like that, when they have kids in their own backyard," says Mr. Stroud.

part of the problem is Americans fear losing their child to birth parents

because of the laws in this country.

that's why many go overseas to adopt.

those videos of adoptive parents having to return their crying adopted children to the birth parents are very powerful also. nobody wants to go through that.