Adoptive mother Theresa Alden with her sons Gavin (L), 6, and Graem, 4, at their residence in Lancaster , Pennsylvania, June 10, 2008. Alden's children, Gavin and Graem, are two of around 140,000 adopted in the United States each year. Of those, around 20,000 are adopted by adults of a different race. But black children in foster care are less likely to be adopted into a family than children from other races and U.S. laws governing adoption are failing, according to a major new report. Picture taken June 10, 2008. To match feature USA-ADOPTION/ REUTERS/Tim Shaffer (UNITED STATES)