[cgbg]

Most of the problems I have heard about are from kids who are older than infants before they get into the foster care system.

While there would be some exceptions I would think most infants could be saved...

Also such a policy would ultimately reduce the number of such infants since it would undermine the cultural norm in some communities that encourages teenage pregnancy.

imho within two generations there would be a major turnaround in the black "underclass" if this policy were "adopted". :-)

[durasell]

Want to adopt a kid? You're in luck. Here's the NYC website..

http://www.coac.org/about/mission.shtml

An excerpt:

About 6,500 of these 17,000 children have the permanency goal of adoption, and approximately 3,500 are legally free to be adopted. While many of these children have an adoptive family, a significant number do not: over 400 children have been legally free for adoption for more than one year, and have no identified adoptive family as yet. COAC's target population is the hardest to place group of children with special needs - older (8-17 years old), physically or emotionally challenged, and sibling groups. They are the victims of the problems of their parents and our society, placed in foster care due to neglect, abuse, poverty, substance abuse, and homelessness.

I'll translate the above paragraph for you. Many of these kids are probably already broken beyond repair with the odds seriously stacked against them for anything approaching a normal life. Many have problems ranging from FAS to neurological problems from drug abuse from the mother while pregnant.

[Star Traveler]

You said -- "imho within two generations there would be a major turnaround in the black "underclass" if this policy were "adopted". :-)"

Yeah, in two generations the gay population will have all the babies that they need...

Regards,
Star Traveler