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Show TtiTr)ri y, yry yn y y yy yyy yMy8in y. yfnyw-riiani- 2 II Tht Salt Lake Tribune, 'f ftwn&ay, July 18, 1973 yiy'y'y1 Black Babies Have Trouble Finding Utah Homes Jacobsen By JcAnn Tribune Staff Writer There are some people who love children because they are not because of the children color of their skin. a "But in Utah social prejudices hinder them from expressing this love, said Mrs. Lillian L. Flowers, director, Childrens Service Society of Utah, 576 E. South Temple.- - I I: J S "I have talked to a lot of white couples vho want to provide a home for a minority child, but didnt think the community would accept it. It is this same prejudice, Mrs. Flowers said, that has forced the Childrens Service Society to be concerned about crossing racial lines. In Terms of Babies We have never thought in terms of transracial placeMrs. ments in the past, Flowers said. Weve always thought in terms of babies about the needs of children. parents who want a child thats any size, shape or color just a child. Mrs. Flowers said two dramatic changes in the adoption We need scene have come about past five years in the for the biack child to able home or grow up in a foster home. white a familys in If a family tries to raise it the black child as a white, disastrous1 has to be black; the mother was Chicano. Today, she said, there are fewer and fewer babies available for adoption throughout the United States, and outside of Utah, there are waiting lists of couples wanting adopt black babies. Indians, Chicanos Okay to Mrs. Flowers said the Ch- ildrens Service Society receives many of applications from white couples who want to adopt babies including Indian and Chicano babies, which are highly acceptable in Utah. But, there is tn demand fo black babies. Mrs. Flowers said the agency placed nine black children in transracial adoptions in to Boston. None of the nine was placed in Utah. 1971 from Alaska In the only transracial placement the agency has made in the past year and a half, a black child was adopted by a couple lining at a Utah Army base. But, Mrs. h Flowers said, it was a couple. The father was non-Uta- If, in Utah, a white couple wanted to adopt a black child, the agency would have to be thorough in examining the couples motives to deermine how unprejudiced the couple really is, Mrs. Flowers said. are some white There who she said, couples, would not be looking at a black child as a child who has a need for a mom and dad, but as a member of the black Ms. commumty prejudice is only one of many possible reasons for the scarcity of transracial adoptions in Utah. At the time of the civil rights movement,, she said, thousands of black children white with were placed the Blacks supported couples. idea. But, today, Mrs. Flowers black organizaexplained, tions are opposed to transracial placement. Their alternative? Make it possible for blacks to adopt their own children. race. Using the Child couple would be trying to demonstrate to the commumty that were not prejudiced. The child would This be used, explained that rl-w- ers Mrs. Flowers said. In such a case, Mrs. Flowers said, the agency has to look at which would be prefer- - Subsidized Adoption said that Mrs. Flowers while, in the past, this was economically unfeasible, today in 22 states governments have made subsidized adoption possible, where economically disadvantaged minority couples can legally adopt a child and receive financial assistance Color TV Taken 0 Dolores Carter, East, told police burglars entered her apartment through a back door and took a color television set worth $300. 763-70- from the state. The subsidized adoption plan was passed by the Utah State Legislature in the last session, she said. Mrs. Flowers said the limited population of alacks in Utah communA:es also adds to the scarcity of black children available for adoption. And, black unwed ntotners, like white unw'ed mothers, are more frequently keeping their rather than relinbabies, quishing them for adoption. Because of the increasing amount of requests for babies m Utah, Mrs. Flowers said, the Childrens Service Society does not take adoption applications from outside the state for white babies. But the society has been forced to place almost all black babies outside of the slate. Lists Car Theft Police are loking for a 1964 Buick LeSabre stolen from Russ Hensley, 1307 W. 300 South, while it was parked at 50 W. North Temple. 5 BARGAIN DAYS - VALUES HAVE NEVER BEEN BETTER SINCE THE DAYS OF ' vf-.- ; in;;V., ii , '' s 3 S - i U r v , ' 'j,ix,.," . ?V. k, f'l V . sc, , ri i ?? x ,5-'- i T ,- v iiilfcit' 5 J - ;f -' 3- Vm, - u J .t , ' l ;x QUASAR II PORTABLE PORTABLE ,; A ' ' Diag. Black and White i K :A ? -- j! 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