Friday, March 28, 1976 2 Interracial adoption sides aired By RON COHN Staff Writer The success of interracial adoption is threatened by the mass phenomenon of ethnic prejudice in this country. Donald Duck, professor of social welfare, said yesterday. When he consults with a couple that is considering the adoption of a child of another race, Chambers said, he tells them to take a long look at the situation. "I really hate to see prospective adoptive parents walk into a situation for which there is a high probability of a strong dose of human misery," he said. "IT'S A PROBLEM that (couples) can overcome," she said. "Our society has so many different cultures that it really doesn't matter." Anna Fender, a social service worker for the Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS) for the state of Kansas, partially agreed with Chambers. But she said that the difficulties of interracial adoptions weren't that great. Fender said most people who adopted children of other ethnic backgrounds were college-educated, and thus more secure and less prejudiced. The SRS does extensive background checking on all prospective adoptive families, Fender said, and it encourages parents to bring their children along to meet the child being considered for adoption before his actual placement in the home. She said there was a six-month supervisory period for adopted children who were less than a year old and a 10-month period for children older than a year. This supervisory period would help to determine if there were any problems, she said. CHAMBERS SAID that the problem involved not only the immediate family, but other family members and the neighborhood. "I don't want to knock the adoption agencies," he said, "But I can't conceive of any agency that could guarantee a positive environment for the child." Chambers said that not every situation would be negative, but given the extent of ethnic prejudice, it was likely that problems would result. "The probability is high," he said, "that it could turn out to be a grinding situation." than four or five years old. He said that by that time the child had already achieved a fairly strong self-identity, making it harder for the adjustment to take place. FENDER AGREED that it was harder for an older child to adjust to the new situation and that it was better to adopt the child as soon as possible. It takes about a year for an older child to adjust to a new family situation, she said, but it is also important to know how the child feels about himself. "Some older children have a lower level of functioning when living in a foster home before adoption," Ferdish said. "We have about 20 points in a year's time after adoption." Chambers said the lack of the cultural stereotype "the blonde, blue-eyed baby girl!" that most people wanted to adopt them to adopt children of other races. He said three factors that helped cause the declining supply of the stereotyped milk in the pill and a decrease in the rate of unwed mothers relinquishing their babies. Fender said that wasn't entirely the case. WHEN THE IDEAL child for an adoptive couple isn't available, they have two alternatives: To adopt a child of another family or to seek impairment or to turn to the black-market. "Many people are more accepting today," she said. "They will accept normal children, even those who might have minor impairments." She said that even the supply of children on the black market was hwy. "Mothers feel more secure knowing there has been assessment and approval," she said. Chambers said he didn't entirely disapprove of black market adoptions. "I disapprove of it being a money-making operation," he said. THE BIGGEST problem with black market adoptions is, that for the most part, they place only ideal children, according to Chambers. Thus, the possibility of adoption is low for what Chambers calls atypical children. The answer to the problem is to encourage black families to adopt black children, he said particularly because blacks are more likely to record of taking care of adopted children. Survey lists KYYS at top A recent survey of radio listeners at the University of Kansas indicates that the front runner, KYYS-FM, Kansas City, Mo., has more than twice as many listeners of its closest competitor, KBEQ-FM, also of Kansas City, Mo. KJHK ranked fifth, with 15 per cent of them listened at least "fairly regularly". KYYS LLED WITH 54 per cent, followed by KBEQ, 26.4 per cent; KLWN-FM of Lawrence, 22 per cent; KANU-FM of Lawrence, 19.6 per cent; and JKHJ. He said the survey was taken to show the impact of JKHK-FM, the University's student station, and to show who listens to it on a regular basis. FM stations dominated the top 10. KCMO, Kansas City, Mo., was the only AM station in the top 10, ranking eighth, with 7.5 per cent. Ernie Martin, associate professor of radio, television and film, said recently that the survey, which interviewed 322 students, was taken between Feb. 19 and 26 by telephone from a systematically drawn sampling of the KU student directory. "When you look at the number of stations listened to by students," Martin said, "it's not surprising that an album-oriented rock station (KYYS) is number one. It isn't so surprising that your station (KBEQ) is very strong with its freshman and sophomore listeners." Graduate students interviewed in the survey ranked KANU-FM first. Of KANU's 19.6 per cent total, 32.7 per cent of the listeners were graduate students. Martin said he was pleased with KJHK's results in the survey. "Any station has a difficult time getting into the market," he said. "Fifteen per cent initial impact on the market is a good showing. I've also found out that 40 per cent of KU students have listened to KJHK at one time or another." QUESTIONS ASKED in the survey were: "Of all the radio stations you hear, which one station do you usually spend the most time on?" "What is your favorite radio station do you listen to fairly regularly?" "Besides playing rock," he said, "we also play excellent rock by artists that aren't well-known and rock that's not played on other radio stations." Martin said the station was going to increase its promotion, especially among freshmen and phomometers, because he had heard a number of students didn't hear of JKHK. "The first lies in getting next to the black community and seeing what the barriers that are present are." MARTIN SAID JKH was trying to be an alternative to top-40 and oil-oriented Chambers said there were two soups to getting black families to adopt. "The second would be an intensive subsidized program, a strong program so that they know they can adopt kids, to ensure that they would receive maintenance program payments. Then they might be more ant to adot." A little more than 10 per cent of JKHJ's music is jazzer or jazz-rock, he said. In addition, he said JKHJ was strong on news and educational programming aimed at the KU student. He said one of the problems with the Vietnamese orphans was that some orphans' parents were still living in South Vietnam. He pointed to a problem over which had custodial rights. Chambers said he didn't think the prejudice in this country was as heavy against Orientals as it was against blacks. He said the children wouldn't be as much of a problem: Chambers related "Operation Babylift", which brought thousands of Vietnamese orphans to this country last year, to the interracial adoption problem. But it would be hard to find parents to adopt those Vietnamese children when there were so many of them with living parents, he said. "There is no reason why this country couldn't identify who are the children with massive problems and return them to the South Vietnamese government," he said. "In my view they would certainly be better off." CHARMBERS SAID that if the Vietnamese children weren't adopted they might spend a lot of time alone. "The fact of the matter is," he said, "if a kid spends 10 years in foster care, he's liable to be in four homes during that time. 'If we can prevent that, we'll be better" 'If we can prevent that, we'll be better off.' PIGSKIN TUCH CHAIR Natural tanned hide stretched over a hand-hem frame. Natural work base. Brown and tan Reg. 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