I'm an adoptive parent in the U.S. as well as in Canada, because I lived outside of Philadelphia, where we adopted my eldest son when he was three. He's an African-American. I learned a few things there about the U.S. model.
First, they were very straightforward about when they had terminated parental rights and how they moved forward on that. Our access orders in Ontario are creating confusion in the system. We need to clean that system up.
Second, on post-adoption supports, I still, to this day, get $12.50 per day from the Bucks County Children and Youth Social Services Agency, because they believed, correctly, that the three-year-old African-American who had bounced between three foster homes would be much better off placed permanently for the long term. Now, we've spent much more as a family than $12.50 a day, but that amount helps.