-j-L ■ M Queen* College, was one of the recipients of Uw Charlotte Housing Authority Scholarships presented this week ai the United Way Au ditorium. The second annual Break fast meeting also featured two other scholarship recipients: Warren Davis and Steven Roland, both students at Johnson C. Smith Uni versity. (Photo By Teresa Sim mons) - Adoption— - Con tinned From Page IA at that number, only 25 percent decide to give their babies up for adoption. Lost year we placed 1« infants with families Thirty-nine percent at those infants were minorities. This year we have ap proved 8# black couples for adop tion.” These bleak statistics give credence to the fact that there just aren't enough ha hies to go around. Bass cited that the ris* of single parents and abortion as two factors contributing to the decline of infanta . -available far adoption, plus Ua ag«»ey does not pUBh adoption to Its pregnant teens. "When you tell someone you’re adapting a child, then it's pro jected as being a positive move. But society still looks negatively when a woman decides to give her hum up, even if it is the best thing for the mother and the child." Once a mother has rnmA* her decision to elect adoption, the child is placed in a Family Care Home licensed by. The Children’s Home Society. Tbs mother then has SO days to change her mind. Durii« those SO days, the child is being evaluated far his or her overall physical, emotional and mental well-being. Once those SO days are family that has been carefully in© screening ot prospective parents for infants is basically the satne kind at process that occurs with older children and ‘siblings. Where the difference cooes in is with black couples and white couples. ... .. For a white couple that la being _ considered for an infant, the mother has to stay home, not so for a black mother. She can work. The income levels are a lot more flexible in the black couple’s household than in the white couple’s. A white couple has to have a doctor’s note stating that they cannot have children; this is not necessary in the blade family. Such disparities may seem discrim inatory, but Bass assured that such differences are inevitable when there are so many black children waiting to be placed with fami lies. There are even adoption sub sidies and foster care payments for some adoption cases. Although the agency requires that a couple be married in order to adopt an infant, single persons In terested in adopting are eligible to adopt an older child Explaining the agency’s pro cedure for initiating an adoption case, Bass said that a simple call to The Children's Home Society will precede an application being sent to the interested party, afterwards, an interview, and time spent with the prospective parents are other steps that follow. ii mere are no prooiems and If there is a child to flt the de scription of an applicant, an adop tion can take place in a matter of a few months. For a couple wanting a baby, however, the entire procedure can take up to two years or more,” said Bass. Barn strongly feels that in spite of a. child's problems it is Ms or her inherent right to have a family. 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