Domestic and international adoption.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

I am responding to the article in the July 2006 issue of Social Work, which focused on adoptions of African children by American families and adoptions of children from the public foster care system in the United States. The article brought to my mind a number of things that are relevant to a discussion of domestic and international adoptions.

I have served as the director of adoption services for the New York state Department of Social Services and more recently I have prepared adoption home studies for families who are adopting both domestically and internationally.