BABIES without homes.

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".