This is a good time to remind people that there's a huge backlog of stable, middle-class Americans desperate to adopt. This persists primarily because of huge regulatory and legal burdens placed on the adoption process.

The most despicable of which is a constellation of bigoted state-by-state policies on "racial matching". The end result is that black foster kids on average spend twice as long in the system as their white counterparts.[1]

[1] https://ij.org/press-release/institute-for-justice-challenge...