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Originally Posted by tytbody
I know you all can tell from my avatar, I'm African American. I would like to know, what is the big appeal for White America to adopt African Babies and Chinese Babies? I don't get it.
Are they trying to show the world they really do love us or they feel African Babies are more available?
Why not just adopt a baby in their own state and enjoy the baby.
Well, I have to tell you that if I was into adopting a baby, I would not adopt an African baby for sure! If I had to choose from non-Caucasian ones, my choice would be Latin American (Peru, Ecuador, something like that).
I don't know how it works in the US (I am in Canada) but I have a friend who adopted 2 babies from China. I asked her the same question (when they were getting baby #1) - I thought that people would want, in general, a caucasion baby because it would not be apparent, at a glance, that the baby was not their biological baby. (not that there is anything wrong with adoption, of course). She explained to me that it cost approximately $20,000 to get a Chinese baby versus over $30,000 for a Russian baby. Also, the adoption from China - or rather the price for adoption from China - included a trip to China to pick up the baby and at the same time, a week or so of a vacation cruise (for the entire group of adoptive parents) to bond with their new babies. I believe the trip to Russia to pick up the baby would have to be paid for on top of the price of the adoption.
However, they got the first baby some 6 years ago so my memory is a bit hazy, but this was it in a nutshell.
I don't recall why they didn't try other countries - Romania, for example - but it could be because they had to go through an agency and perhaps each agency "provides" kids from a few select countries only, don't know.