Children in orphanages, so does Ukraine.

A lot of racist "parents" will pay for a white child

A lot of people don't want white kids adopting black or Asian kids, or if they do they want them raised in "their" culture and sensitized to the issues from "their community's" culture. It makes for another burden to carry--and makes it sound like maybe adopting a kid from overseas and dealing with abuse issues there is easier than dealing with teaching not-your-culture to the person living in your house.

Some agencies will only let a kid be cross-racially adopted after a certain length of time passes or if there's no interest.

That's the point.

This WaPo article is pretty fresh.

Synopsis: Trump Jr. says the meeting was about "Russian adoptions". Now we know why.

And how the Trumps could benefit Russia.

And he's sharing this link.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/sergei-magnitsky-murder-114878

Thanks for the link, this is something we all need to educate ourselves about.

it like that until now. So that's what the "not meddle in domestic affairs" means. I wondered what that had to do with anything. And most people will keep believing DT's BS and never see how the U.S. is being bamboozled.

Probably worthy of an OP.

But sometimes it is easier to adopt overseas. A couple of my friends tried to adopt here but had no luck so they adopted overseas.

Note the second criteria for Chinese adoptions

Here are the specifics for single women to adopt:

A woman must be between the ages of 30 and 50. A woman over 50 can still adopt a special focus child, but the age difference between the child and the applicant can be no more than 45 years.

The woman must sign a statement that she is not a homosexual. She must give her reason for being single and her attitude towards marriage. (In other words, would she be open to being married.)

She can have no more than two children in her home under the age of 18, and her youngest child should not be younger than 6.

A single woman can only adopt one special focus adoption at a time. (Married couples can adopt two special focus children at a time.) Singles can reapply for another child after one year.

The woman must meet the health requirements (physical and mental) of the traditional China adoption program. (An issue for many people is the 2 year prohibition on antidepressants.

Exceptions have sometimes been made for special needs adoptions, but it is not clear and probably doubtful whether an exception will be made for single women.)

Income Requirements: The family annual income shall reach $10,000 per family member, including the prospective adoptee and the family net assets value should be $100,000. The applicant must have adequate medical insurance to cover the medical expense of the adopted child.

Applicants should have experience in caring for children or be occupied in child-related fields, such as doctor, nurse, teacher, child psychological counselor, etc. Preference will be given to applicants that have had successful experience in caring for special needs children.

The applicant must have wide social and family supporting network that can provide assistance any time.

If the woman has a stable relationship and lives with a male partner, the requirements of couple applicants shall be applied.

But many of the agencies in the United States have these requirements as well.

At best, Trump could invoke prosecutorial discretion for not enforcing laws he deems unnecessary or politically or humanely improper.

IMHO, prosecutorial discretion is a case-by-case issue dealt with fairly low in the food chain, not a law-by-law issue determined by the top dog.