Ed T - I'd say yes. The immediate necessity of a child for a stable loving environment overrides any politically correct side-issies to *my* mind. Where parents that are *more* suited to a childs needs are available, then those may be preferenced. But if it's a case of white smoking stable home for a black adolescent is concerned, versus pretty much nothing, I'd go with the smoking white family. People who are trained in this kind of thing, might differ. But that'd be my uneducated take.