Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-11 | Page 22 | Daily Health Service

i Ua Daily Health Sf Service ff t L Good Ancestry Important By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia the Health Magazine With modern scientific methods of controlling birth and with the disInclination disinclination of the average woman to have lave children early In married life the he problem of securing good children for adoption is being brought more and more frequently to the attention of physicians and institutions Most of the children who are available available available avail avail- able for adoption are either Illegitimate illegitimate mate those abandoned by their parents parents parents par par- or those taken away from disorderly disorderly dis dis- dis orderly or vicious parents by legal authorities With such possible sources it is not surprising that few are arc o of the highest type trpe either physically or mentally The demand for children for or adoption far exceeds the supply Girls Girs are more often orten requested than boys joys It is important t to make certain certain tam tain first of a all that there is no chronic blood disease or systemic venereal disorder In several investigations Illegitimate Illegitimate mate children have been found t to tobe toe be e brighter blighter and of better parentage than legitimate children available for adoption The logic of this fact is easily understood Sometimes parents want a a. child to o replace an infant that has been lost ost in which case they endeavor or to duplicate the physical and su superficial rn- rn cial char characteristics without giving sufficient attention to the mentality amy and the heredity Professor Paul mentions an instance in which a woman suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly deny decided to adopt a baby be because because because be- be cause she thought it would look sweet in a coat which she could make I from some over left-over pieces of white fur I A physician who has had much ex experience experience ex- ex in the field says that the parents Barents usually come asking for gol gol- gol- gol haired den-haired eyed blue-eyed girls with sweet dispositions It is merely necessary necessary sary to take the prospective parents through the nursery in order to cause them to take the first child that may happen to hold its arms out to them It is Important to remember from the point of view of heredity that the child chUd is not only the direct de descendant descendant descendant de- de of its parents but the sum of all of the ancestry o of both for hundreds of oC years back Moreover nature has extraordinary ways in that it suddenly projects a black baek blacksheep sheep into a thoroughly good family and raises great statesmen multimillionaires multimillionaires multi multi- millionaires and intellectual giants gLants out of mud heaps Beyond this however how how- ever is la the fact that at least 70 per percent percent percent cent of oC weight can be placed on the Immediate parents in the selecting of an infant with a view to getting a clean history from the point of view of oC mentality and 30 per cent on the Influence o of the more remote an an- suggests that it is desirable desirable desir desir- able to pick out a child chUd with as good goodan an ancestry as possible to pick out the child chUd young and to take the child chUd only on trial Because of the difficulties difficulties dUn dUn- involved in the situation most institutions having children available for adoption now have definite procedures procedures procedures pro pro- which they compel prospective prospective prospective tive parents to follow in order to be assured that satisfactory results will willbe willbe be secured