European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes editor s note the two Parent family still is Ideal for adopting Chil Dren. But if there Aren t enough mar ried couples becoming Foster parents the ones that suffer Are the homeless Loveless leftovers. As a result More and More adoption agencies Are considering single parents men or women for adoptions. The theory one Parent is better than none. A during another time during an other Day the unmarried woman decorous by dressed and fiddling nervously with the gloves in hex Lap would have been acting out an All too familiar heart breaking drama As she discussed her situation with an adoption Agency Case worker. But today in Many parts of the coun try and with increasing frequency the scene Means something entirely differ ent. Instead of seeking to give up a child the unmarried woman was ask ing advice on How to adopt one. Three years ago this child hungry in wed woman would have had no Chance at All. This year her chances Are still Slimmer than a married couple s and with Many More strings. But at least she has a Chance. The Walls of resistance to the single person As an adoptive Mother or father Are beginning to  people Don t like it. The tradition of the two Parent family Dies  experts still Eye the single adoptive Parent with suspicion and trepidation. Yet it is happening. It is happening because of the Nee to find Homes for children with emotional physical or racial handicaps Orthe kids too big to be cute. For them one Parent is better than  is happening especially in the big cities. There the leftovers languish i institutions or shuffle from Foster Home to Foster Home until eventually they Are shunted onto the streets. Haunted by their helplessness social workers no Ware turning to those until now ignored the paternally unfulfilled  of the single parents Are women and probably will continue to be. But piano teacher Tony Piazza Portland ore., 41, has adopted two Young sons on of italian Spanish extraction and the other of Spanish mexican Indian Des cent. A Man in new York and one in los Angeles Are known to be adoptive fathers. All in All there Are less than 200 single Parent adoptions a tiny few compared to the More than a million children awaiting adoption. But adoption officials Hope that As More unmarried learn they Are now eligible to adopt Chil Dren the numbers of unclaimed kids will dwindle. Adoptions Are not controlled by Laws so much As they Are regulated by the Agency policies in each Community. A Pioneer in changing these regulations i Walter a. Heath director of the nation s largest adoption Agency the los Ange Les county Bureau of adoptions. Concerned by a rising illegitimacy rate an the rising number of hard to place youngsters he re examined the Prospect of the unmarried As a Parent. As a result the California adoption rules were revised in january 1965, to allow a single person to adopt Achild when a two Parent family has not been found because of a child s Spe Cial  by the following christinas a 4-year-old negro boy waited for Santa Claus to arrive surrounded by the first family he had Ever known a widowed Mother and a new sister. Shortly afterwards still another widow became the adoptive Mother of a mexi can american. Then a spinster who had reared a Niece to adulthood became the Legal Mother of an 18-month-old negro girl. One Parent is better than none for Little ones who have nobody single adults offer love someone to cling to in the face of these examples the child welfare league of America which sets standards for member agencies made a study and announced last july it approved of the single Parent if Al efforts to find a two Parent family had failed. The Supply of Normal White infant still cannot fill the demand from child less White couples. But ironically those youngsters most in need of double doses of tender Loving care those with Spe Cial problems have few lakers. The Way blonde 3-year-old Patti Elaine bounces around it is not easy to notice that she is Blind. Fortunately that fierce desire to exercise her in dependence is understood by her Mother of just a few months Norma Claypool for she herself is Blind. A spinster teacher of visually limited children in Pitts Burgh pa., miss Claypool s path crossed Patti Elaine s Only because she had been asked for professional advice by som who thought the Little girl might be retarded. Adopting the child or any child had never entered her mind. Intrigued by Patti s response to blocks with Bells in them miss Claypool took her Home for a few weeks to teach Hersome skills experienced the Joy of an intellectually Awakening child and reluctantly returned her to the institution. Some time later she returned to visit Patti. I Laid my hand on her gently an said i and she broke away from her nurse and fell into my arms miss Claypool recalled recently. I said to myself this is my Patti she has chosen me for her Mother she is mine " the adoption came soon after Ward. From All appearances blonde Blue eyed Clayton Cullum 22 months and full of mischief i the Premium adoption reserved for Ideal american Cou Ples that is Normal White and cuddly. But Clay has a heart defect. Doctor say he will require surgery to Correct the main Aorta when he is about 8years old. His new Mother is Joyce Cullum a California Divorcee with 16-year-old twins a girl and a boy. Couples adopting their first child Al ways want a perfect one. But he in t my first she says. Mrs. Calludis a los Angeles county third Grade teacher who once taught emotionally disturbed children. Not surprisingly several of the single women approved As adoptive mothers have had special training in the social services or in dealing with children. Louise Guenthner 59, who adopted a9-year-old greek girl and her 11-year old brother is a director of the Washington state adoption resources Exchange. Or. Mary b. Lane 56, a childless widow now the Mother of a 3-year-old son and a 9-month-old daughter is pro Fessor of education at san Francisco state College. Wanda Metterman who became new York City s first adoptive unwed Mother is a Case work super visor in Brooklyn for the new York social services. Professional women have substantially larger incomes than others but salary is not a primary consideration in a single Parent adoption. Financially she must have a steady  singletons will be turned Down for Case workers scrutinize the motives of child hungry unwed applicants even More so than a childless couple is there a psychological reason Why the applicant has remained single is he or she socially maladjusted is she Ore a lonely neurotic in search of a sub statute for a husband or wife docs the applicant realize there Are Many pains of parenthood As Well As pleasures the single Mother candidate must Nave a Good Day care program. Highly desirable Are a grandmother aunt sister what social workers Call a extended family to supervise youngster while the adoptive Mot  is also an advantage in the Ca of an adoptive Mother for her to Nana father an Uncle or brother in Law some responsible male close to the family to create a father image for adopted child. ,. The father image is essential to healthy emotional development of child in the opinion of or. Alan f. Joe Reacher president of planned pare Hood of America. So strongly does hold to this belief that he says of one Parent adoption "1 feel sorry such a  but says Helen Wright of the Dren s Home society of California am confident that these single a in our culture men teachers Tow she says. We Are movies a a the person to person am thur i drawn out of our Homes to our i Ujj our schools our organi anon our this is not 1890. We Are mob e wow growing up in u world of ?.""?�"i think the real key is Iba Early years the child is hav and warmth which gives " personal identity. A single give the child that love. Sis wide. Alpenfels also views the %. Of toward 8lnle adoptions As a1 take the terrific pressure of marry in order to be Mot i n