101.   Instead, they say, legislators should concentrate on removing barriers within the system that prevent minority families from adopting children of their own race.

102.   It also removed most barriers to interracial adoptions, making it easier for black children to be adopted by white families.

103.   It does not extend any rights to homosexuals wanting to adopt children or expand any parental rights.

104.   Initially, she tried to adopt a child out of foster care, but she was turned down because she was single.

105.   It has a hate crimes law and allows gays and lesbians to adopt children.

106.   It is almost unheard of for a judge to allow a relative to adopt a child after the biological parents have selected someone else, Freundlich said.

107.   It is always easier to find a family to adopt one child, rather than several.

108.   Instead, it would create a six-to-nine month waiting period for adoption by foreigners to give Russian families the first opportunity to adopt the child.

109.   It may, however, prevent couples from going to court to legally adopt children they already are parenting, especially in the case of second-parent adoptions.

110.   It might even be worthwhile for single women, or even couples, hoping to adopt foreign children.