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Show lU-vifw - : !. ... . ".Mch II, l!)S2-IaeS , , . i ; i f . ... i i : ..;. i'. - ' i r j J . f i f ' ' ' f : ' : I ' - - . . . S .' ; ' i ' J 5 ' ' " ' ' ' . .. . I - . ; , ; c. ". , i - ' . i i - )r 1 j m ' i' ' : v 'I - t i - -: - : ! -.1 ; '.1 4 '-A I, Hl II I Ml i II IS uWI ,. lo, ,n ;,( a musical tnninhl al Mouiilaiu Virw Hili SHuml. Son..- mciulim ami sl"ists arc- fn" 1'lcasant '.i II-. c i , ..-! . . ; . .1 - ... r' i ; y 1 fv- r J ; . .... . .l;;::z? - THKSK KlMM'Hi; XitTK.NKHS scorn to not be too impressed with Reflections Contest awards they received at Valley View School. L. tor.. Shc-lli Smiil.. atli ui llialt, David Bell, Mindy Dayton andTamara Humble. , iotSier of Thirty-two Children l ias Miniature United Nations Uy MARY ( OO VS Bonnie I'anl of Pleasant Grove runs a m i n i a t u r u V n i t ccl Nations, in her a.i.i In r husbaiu!! Aaron's lunne every day. The family had ten children of heir own, a n (i I h e n proceeded !o take in both foster and .'iooted children from al! different dif-ferent cultures and races. The Card's have had 32 children in their home over the last several years. During a P'l'A meeting at Valley ' View last Thursday night, Mrs. Card explained ex-plained methods that her large family have found useful in family cohesiveness. She explained, ex-plained, however, that these are things that work in her family, but that might not work in i all families. She invited those attending to use whatever they felt would work for them. At present, they have 12 children (nine of which are teenage girls) in their home. She said that all of the children are expected to do a certain job each day, and that the girls are assigned a day that they make the main meal. They are expected to plan it, cook it, and serve it. She told of some of the ! extreme conditions that some of the children lived under in their native lands. They have a Samoan girl, a Mexican girl, a Navaho daughter, and two Oriental daughters. She said that it was a personal goal of her and her husband to be able to adopt, but that when a social worker saw that they had as many children that they did, that they just laughed at the thought of them adopting any more. She said that the first child they adopted was a little Samoan baby girl when they were on a teaching over there for the LDS church. She and her husband were carefully looked over by the village, and finally allowed to adopt the baby. "Since then," she commented, "doors have opened up to us to take children from many different circumstances cir-cumstances into our home." She said that her and her husband talk individually to the children when another child is offered to them to take in. She said that the children have never refused another child a permanent home. . Recently, she com mented, they have adopted a set of twin boys from Guatemala, and two black boys from another state. One of the women- in the audience asked her if they had any problems with marrying within their own race. She said that all of the children have ample opportunity to meet people of their own race, "being close to BYU." She said that all they have asked, as parents, that the girls look for a "Valiant Priesthood holder," and she said that as yet, they have all married in the LDS Temple. She said that the family does many things together, especially meals. She and her husband feel this makes the entire group feel they have a place where they belong. |