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The article reports that for the first time in 30 years there are more children to be adopted than there are people to adopt them in the U.S. It has always been difficult to find homes for older children, those with physical handicaps, and racial minority children. But today it is often hard to place the white, blue-eyed blonde, the "blue ribbon baby." A surplus of babies does not exist everywhere in the country--the pattern changes from region to region. But there are more babies than homes in enough places to cause concern to those who work in adoption. INSET: A look at the "parent gap".

Comments on adopting a child in Rome, Italy. Reason for adopting a child since the end of World War II; Instability of a writer's salary; Factors considered before deciding for an adoption.

Presents the experience of the author in adopting an orphan from Greece. Legal requirements needed to ensure the adoption; Procedure followed in choosing a baby for adoption in a Greek orphanage.

The article provides information on the decision handed by the judge in Wyoming concerning the case of a divorced couple and decided to let the Browns adopt their son provided he would be returned as soon as they wanted him back. In less than a year, the couple reconciled and wanted back their child but the Browns declined. The couple sued the Browns and the judge ruled that the legal right of the parent is secondary to the interest of the child.