21.   Forty-three states have laws that encourage public adoption agencies to match a child with prospective parents of the same race.

22.   How the orphans eye the prospective adoptive parents as eagerly as puppies in a pet shop.

23.   If Bledsoe gets her way, the agency would reinstate her supervisory position and reverse its unwritten but implicitly tolerant policy toward prospective parents who are homosexuals.

24.   Imagine the breeder reaching into the cage to grab a few prospective parents.

25.   In a strange twist of eugenics, the Babyz sought are, like their prospective parents, overwhelmingly female, and the cast-off orphan babies are male.

26.   In other cases, the tests have left prospective parents with difficult decisions that generations before never faced.

27.   In New York, the group organizes celebrations of events like the Chinese New Year, sponsors panel discussions, publishes a newsletter, and advises prospective adoptive parents.

28.   Information, listings of children and prospective parents, chat and other services.

29.   It reduces barriers to adoption by creating a pre-certification process for prospective parents so that a permanent adoption can be completed more quickly.

30.   It starts with parents who wish for a boy, as most prospective parents do.