Rush to Adopt Children
ISESPITE the economic depression, lonely and childless people in Britain are still willing to adept children.
The London County Council, who maintains of*o homeless girls and boys, has announced that adoptions must be of a permanent and legal chafacter, but a child may be given a trial of n few months before the adoption;order is made. . An oflicial of the L.C.C. statecjl that there was a steady demand by ; goodclass people, many in really affluent circumstances, for the adoption of children, and not all of them were people without children. ! “We are having more applications than ever before," said the secretary of the National Children Adoption Association to a London press representative, “and the demand is nearly exceeding the supply. The applicants, whose incomes range from £SOO to £SOOO a year, are mostly married couples without children, and some of them adopt three or four children.* There is a great demand for girls, but recently boys have come into favor. Twins also are popular.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17947, 26 November 1932, Page 10
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168Rush to Adopt Children Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17947, 26 November 1932, Page 10
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