Andrea Moorehead was abandoned by her birth mother, a crack cocaine user who had tested positive for venereal disease shortly after birth. Andrea was placed with foster parents when she was nine days old. The foster parents, Melva and Robert Dearth, sought to adopt Andrea when she was ten months old. The county’s Children Service Bureau (CSB) opposed this proposed adoption. The Dearths alleged that CSB’s decision was predicated on the fact that they were white and Andrea was black. They proved that they lived in an interracial neighborhood, that they attended an interracial church, and that their two children attended an interracial school. They had a stable marriage and financial standing. The Dearths filed a motion for review of this administrative decision in the Common Pleas Court. They requested that CSB’s custody be terminated and that permanent custody of Andrea be granted to them. The Court denied the Dearths’ motion. The Dearths appealed. The appeals court found that there was clear evidence that CSB had a documented policy of placing black children with white adoptive parents only when no black parent could be found. Under Ohio law, adoption placements are to be made in the “best interests of the child.” To what extent can adoption agencies such as CSB consider factors such as race and culture in determining adoption procedures? Under the law, can the racial factor outweigh all other considerations?