I used to work with a black guy trying to adopt an older black kid. I mean that should be nearly as easy as picking up a dog from the pound. Older black kids aren't exactly the choice bunch.

He spent over a year going thru some sort of "licensing" process where the training courses being a huge chunk, then the inspections of his house that got to such detail that they were requiring him to fix some of the most asinine things in his house as "safety" issues. He gets through all that. Gets sort of a kid figured out. The best idea I could get is the foster who had the kid was going to have to give up some kickbacks so they basically manipulated the kid out of going along with it. So it all falls through, and then the government says his license is expired and he has to start all that process over. He just quit at that point.