Adopting from the child welfare system costs little to nothing. We don’t charge exorbitant fees for matching or facilitation or transition services. There are tens of thousands of available children of all ages. Please pass that information along wherever you can. All you have to do is go to Google, type in your state…

This. I am a longtime adoptions social worker. There have been gradual—too slow, but there—shifts in our consideration of transracial adoptions since the latter 20th century. Most notable is the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which provides that a child who comes into the custody of the state and cannot be placed…