Why were the girls not adoptible by a hetero family? There are 2,000,000 wanting to adopt. Of course, I know the child welfare folks in a lot of states have some crazy practices, including putting lesbian couples ahead of heteros, not allowing cross racial adoption, etc.

John, having listened to a lot of friends trying to adopt, I think you’re radically understating the difficulty in placing multiple siblings with tough backgrounds and “minority” ethnicities.