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Show ADOPTING CHILDREN Many people who have hoped to have children but have been disappointed disap-pointed in that ambition, have turned to the thought of adopting the children child-ren of other parents. There are many demands from childless families for such little ones, and it seems probable that as years go on, there will be many more homes open for these waifs than there are children who need tuch care. Some people dread such an attempt and feel that they may devote a great deal of effort and affection to some little one who will not prove worthy. But there may be no more risk of such an outcome than there is with one's own children. A certain proportion of all children prove disappointing. The fault is not probably so much in the inborn traits of the child, as it is in the methods of training employed by the parent. Kasy-going methods in dealing with children are ruining many, and perhaps parents would be more likely to make this mistake with their own little ones than they would with adopted children. The families that take children in a calculating way, with the motive of getting a certain amount of work out of them, which they figure will com-I com-I pensatc them for the effort and expense, may or may not get what they ; expect. Such people ought not to be permitted to take children unless they arc conscientious about it, and have honestly resolved to give them a good i and happy home. Unless they grow attached to them and give them real affection and care, the children may not be happy, and arc rather likely to be disappointing.' Many childless people have assumed this responsibility, and have found that these homeless children grew up into true sons and daughters who have brought infinite happiness to the homes that received them. |
