FEW SEEKING BABIES
Adoption List In Auckland
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Feb. 12. The Child Welfare Division in Auckland is having trouble in finding suitable adoptive parents for non-European babies and has an unusually short waiting list for European babies. The district child welfare officer, Mr K. J. Flint, said today that the number of waiting adoptive parents had been reduced considerably last year. People on the list had shorter waiting now, more searching was now needed for parents, whereas previously the department had the choice of up to six couples from its index.
The waiting list at present comprised 200 couples. Mrs L. Blinkhorn, secretary of the Motherhood of Man Movement, said the lack of adoptive parents was causing concern.
If parents did not come forward babies would have to be placed in foster homes or the mothers would have to keep them. The movement cared for 122 unmarried mothers in 1961 and 170 last year. There were 100 girls booked in between now and late July and the movement’s waiting list contained only 25 parents, said Mrs Blinkhorn.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30055, 13 February 1963, Page 2
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