Many agencies provide expectant parents with photos and summaries of prospective adoptive families to help them choose the adoptive family for their child. These laws affect public adoption agencies as well as any private adoption agencies receiving any Federal funding. Some agencies may not be as welcoming to you as they could be. If it is important to you that your child be placed with adoptive parents where at least one parent is of the same race as your child and agencies do not have them in their pool of applicants, they may be concerned that they will not be able to find a family for your child right away. Not all agencies recruit families of color and some agencies charge fees that can be prohibitive for many families.
Some agencies specialize in finding families for children of color.
They work very hard to let people know that children of color are available for adoption. They also try to make the adoption process less complicated and intrusive for families. Contact the Clearinghouse for the names, addresses and telephone numbers of adoption agencies that specialize in working with families of color, or for all the adoption agencies in your State. The information is free. If you decide on a confidential adoption, you may still wish to make sure that your child can contact you in the future.