BABY TRADE

My wife and I adopted a child from an orphanage in Bogota, Colombia, following fruitless attempts to adopt an infant both here in the United States and in Guatemala. The author claims that she interviewed dozens of couples over three years and that “almost all said they would consider adopting a Latino child abroad before a black child at home.” This implies that couples using Latin America as an adoption source do so because color is an issue. As we learned when we tried to adopt a black infant, interracial adoptions are practically impossible to arrange in the United States. Most public and private agencies comply with the belief that black children don’t belong with white parents.

JAMES M. BALDYGA

San Diego