The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-09
GIRLS FAVORED MORE THAN BOYS
 FOR ADOPTION
Most of Requests for Babies Comes When They Are
 Very Young

New York, Mar. g. - Adopting children is so popular this season thsat at many of the agencies a request for babies, especially girl babies, is being met with the response: Were just out of that kind" Something 'tjust as good"-a nice little baby boy - may be offered, but probably will not be accepted, for the amazing truth is that when a family sets out to choose offspring for itself it unanimously votes for girl.
 This is rather surprising in view of the fact that for centuries little boys and big boys, too have consider ed themselves, and have been consider ed by the world at large, as quite the chef doeuvre of any family. It must come as a shock to them to find that they are decidedly a drug on the adoption market.
 More than half of the requests for adaptable children in New York come r from residents of other sections of the country. Foster parents want to keep secret the fact that the child is not their own, or they think the flu ture life of the child will be more ! pleasant if his history is not too pub lie. When child is given to a family on probation for a year and it is | necessary for the home surroundings 1 to be carefully investigated several times during that period the kindly inspector usually is willing to pass 1 herself off as a book agent to save l the feelings of the family.
 1 Very young babies are the most 1 sought for in spite of the fact that at i the age of few days or even a few months every one but it's parents would be nonplussed to decide whether the infant will turn put to be blond or brunette, President ot i the United States, or a good efficient 1 street cleaner. Up to the age of three ! there is strong demand for "the right baby for the right home" From : that age until twelve the requests arc i decidedly fewer, and after twelve the i adoption is more apt to be with the 1 idea of having the child run errands after school than to dress him up tc be the family's pride and joy. Thess cases are carefully watched to sec 1 that the child has the proper school 1 ing and is not overwroked.
 The straight, unmanageable lock: of ones own children must bt l accepted and stoicalIy done up il | curriers' for great occasions, so i | would not be unnatural to find the woman who goes to pick a flower O.
 babyhood from the whole wide world l turning haughti1y from anything no
 exhibiting the curly hair featured 1T
 song and story. But the popular colo, 1 and texture for hair and the color o
 eyes is that which predominates il the family which is doing the adopt
 ing. Parents hope that soon ever!
 one will have forgotten that the bab.
 ever belonged to any one else ana
 that the more the child resembles tn
 new parents the easier will be it i amalgamation in the family life.
 Religious rules in placing babie
 are firmly held to by all agencies an, charity departments. Children O
 Catholic, Protestant and Jewish farni
 lies go only to people of the sam
 faith. This prevents many complica
 tions. If it were otherwise, fancy
 Jewish fani1y's consternation at tn
 first words from it's adopted child
 lips being "HuTah for the Irish Re