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I am also indebted to those professionals and scholars in the adoption field whose names are listed infra note 50, who helped illuminate for me the nature of current racial matching policies and their impact on children. An abbreviated version of this Article will appear in a chapter of a forthcoming book by the author on adoption, reproductive technology, and surrogacy, with the working title of Children By Choice, to be published by Houghton Mifflin.

Throughout the poorer countries of the world, millions of children live out their young lives in substandard institutions or in the streets. In times of war or political and economic upheaval, added numbers of children become homeless. At the same time, thousands of couples in the more advantaged countries of the West have demonstrated their eagerness to offer permanent homes to many of these children through adoption and have been doing so for more than four decades.

International adoption is under siege, with the number of children placed dropping in each of the last several years, and many countries imposing severe new restrictions.

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