European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Adoption blues fewer kids available by Robert Lindsey new York times he Legal Battle Over baby m that was bellied in a new Jersey courtroom has focused attention on a widening Gap Between the number of infertile american couples who want children and the number of babies available or adoption. Out of desp oration for a baby couples Are increasingly placing advertisements in College and Urban newspapers seeking an United Mother witling to surrender her child. Some couples have even sought infants by placing notices on cars at shopping Center parking lots and on Park benches and Railroad overpasses. Federal officials say the rising demand has also led to a proliferation of organized rings that smuggle babies some of them kidnapped across the mexican Border and then sell them to the highest bidder in the country. It s a bad  said Clit on j. Rogers Deputy District director q the immigration and naturalization service in san Diego it s one Ihling to smuggle an adult who will go to work m this country. It s another Lomprey on the deep suffering and need that people have for a baby although physicians say that growing numbers of childless couples like William and Elizabeth Stem the new Jersey couple awarded custody of baby Are contracting with surrogate mothers or trying to conceive a child through Laboratory fertilization methods Mast first try to adopt a child in a marketplace in which there is far More demand than Supply. Those who compete in this marketplace say the experience can be frustrating painful and emotional. The frustrating thing is there Aren t the number of babies out there that there used to be said Helen Barbalou of Pleasanton calif., who with her husband Gary is among thousands of americans who Send Setleis make phone Calls and use whatever other strategies they can to find an infant or a pregnant woman willing to g