Let's start with the children who are most likely to be adopted:
Facts About Adoption — Children's Rights
Here are the adoption facts for China:
Adoption Information from Adoptive Families Magazine: Domestic, International, Foster and Embryo Adoption Resources
So, as far as the 1-4 age groups are concerned there is
literally a 50-80% overlap between the number of American children
waiting for adoption and the children
being adopted from China. If your claim held any water, the supply of American children waiting to be adopted would be more than enough to fill in more than half of what is currently being shipped in from China. And yet, 50% of American children waiting to be adopted are the same age as 50% of those being adopted and brought in from China. Why? Well, it's clear:
People want very specific
foreign looking adoptees. They don't want them to look like any
visible American demographic. They want their kids to have ties to
other countries and they want to be able to tell a story about how they rescued their kids from some hellhole in the developing world. I get that there are parents who probably don't do it for those reason. They really feel the urgency to adopt a kid and they don't care if it isn't their blood. However, when they choose to adopt a 2 year old kid from China when there literally thousands waiting in the US just like her, it's clear to me that there was an exoticism factor involved. It's hard to escape the visible links of white transnational guilt when it comes to a lot of these adoptions. Let's not kid ourselves into believing otherwise.
That's because the average wait time they have is anywhere from
2 to 7 years. So the kids grow older while the Chinese adoption business booms.