Expert advice: Adoption of USA children as a new alternative for European gaysWhile not widely known yet, hundreds of Europeans, many of them gay, are now parents of children adopted from the USA thanks to the 2008 Hague Adoption Convention and a 2009 amended guidance by the US Department of State. This is especially attractive to European gay men since for them there are almost no other international or domestic adoption alternatives. While outgoing adoptions, also known in the USA as "reverse commute adoptions" may be considered controversial by some, the fact is that at any given time there are over 100,000 children available for adoption in the USA Foster Care System. Michael Goldstein, a NY attorney and approved person, has supervised about a hundred of these outgoing placements since 2008, and states that "prospective adoptive parents overseas tend to be open to adoptions of ‘harder’ to place children, who may have ended up in the U.S. foster care system, but for these accepting people." Go to the article to learn more.