| Show WOULD YOU QUALIFY TO ADOPT A CHILD For every seven couples who want to adopt a baby adoption agencies have ha only one child available say the editors of Changing Times This situation has caused the agencies 10 to set up stiff requirements in placing children in ideal homes Almost unanimously agencies want couples under 40 who can prove that they can never have children Those with chronic physical defects defect are arc considered bad risks Most states provide by law that children of one race cannot be placed with parents of another and some courts have held that babies must be placed with families of their own ion Financial stability is more important than wealth but adopting parents must be able to provide a child a room of his own Some procedures for matching a child and prospective parents include holding up placement of a eyed brown-eyed child until eyed brown-eyed parents are are found looking at a youngster with an eye to what his mother and father might have achieved educationally had their circumstances been different Old rules di dictated that college-bred college couples could not have a child of ill-educated ill parents Today scientific knowledge about heredity and earl early testing by pediatricians and psychiatrists psychiatrists' is being relied upon more Some people have private telephones Others have teenage teenage teenage teen teen- age children |
