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It can't hurt to contact LDS FS and ask them. When we started the adoption process, our case worker was African American (he has since retired) and we talked with him about the possibility of adopting a child of a different race than our family. My impression was that there were no restrictions to adopting a child from whatever race or culture, so long you and the birth mom feel that the placement is a good match. Bob made it clear that having a wide range of acceptable traits on your "wanted" checklist makes your file available to more birth moms to look at and increases your chances of being chosen quickly. We are in the east and I also got the impression that children of non LDS birth parents are sometimes placed for adoption through LDS FS out here. We also had a family living in our district that had 5 (!) children adopted through LDS FS - all of them from different racial backgrounds. LDS FS will place these children whenever they can. (I sadly suspect that LDS folks in general are still somewhat more inclined to be prejudiced against or concerned about the idea of racially blended families and that tendency among our membership makes the issue a bit more confusing when you actually start thinking about adopting your own child.)
AA and bi-racial children are somewhat harder to place - I think that if you have had a strong impression that you will adopt an AA or bi-racial child, you should do what you can to make that possibility become real. Good luck!! (I hope I've been coherent. I've got a pounding headache and am off to bed to sleep - before my own new little angel starts making noise again!)
Ginny
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