If you are LDS and want to adopt a healthy white infant
 

Is LDS social services the easiest and cheapest and fastest way to accomplish that?

The adoption scene is a marketplace, no doubt. If you are not white, if you are older, if you have handicaps, if your mother was a drug addict, etc. your value as a potential adoptee go way down.

If you were interested in adopting an older kid, say above 10, could you do that through LDS social services? What if you wanted to adopt a kid who is in foster care?

The Catholic services is pretty darn good. We almost adopted through that service.

Cheapest? Yes, in most cases.

Easiest, fastest? No way, although it depends on the adoptive parents. Some adoptions happen quickly, others have spent years and years and years on waiting lists.

My advice would be, if you have no children and the adoptive child would be your first, go through LDS Social Services and you'll probably have a child placed with you within 2 years (this assumes you are somewhat normal in intelligence and income).

If you already have a child or children go private and if you choose an agency wisely, it will be much faster than LDSSS.

If you want an older kid or a kid in foster care, I would go through government or government associated agencies. Adopting older kids is quick and cheap and older kids need love and good homes too.

However, I wouldn't adopt older kids if you already have kids unless they're all much older than the kid you'd adopt.

Will LDSSS allow me to adopt a white infant if me and my wife aren't white?

I don't see why not.

You are absolutely right. They treat babies like commodities and I think that's wrong and it sucks. I also think it's not gonna change anytime soon.

If you want to adopt foster care kids go to this web site:
http://www.adoptuskids.org

Or check directly with your state Dept of Family and Protective Services or equivalent.

People willing to adopt older kids (pre-teens and teens) are really needed badly.

We have a big contingent of adopters in my ward. They say that unless you are a young childless coupel that LDS social services is the last place to go. Not that they say it is bad, just not an option for most. These are all families that have adopted several children.

Anyway, they all swear by the Methodist equivalent. Our primary is full of kids that have come through that service.

Will LDS social services allow people of other faiths to adopt?

Just for kicks, I entered a search for Asian kids, any age, any state, but no developmental issues.

Only one in the country!

http://www.adoptuskids.org/child/Chi....aspx?id=26561