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THE HuRPN EXPOPITPfl,MMICti 16 1970 .:
(By Shirley Keller)
There's little doubt that social
workers have changed over the
last few years, and Helen Allen,
who was the special guest
speaker at the annual meeting of
the Huron County Children's Aid
Society Thursday evening in
Goderich, is perhaps one of the
best examples of this awing of
social workers with a heart.
"CAS workers used to be
known as baby Snatchers," Miss
Allen said in an informal meeting
prior to the evening event. "And
they used to look under the beds
to see what kind of a housekeeper
you were. But that's all gone
now."
Miss Allen is the originator of
Today's Child, a newspaper
feature which has led to the
adoption of more than 7,000
Ontario children since 1964. She
is also the key figure on the
television program "The Family
Finder" which was launched in
late 1969 at Miss Allen's
suggestion.
She had no idea after her
graduation froni the University of
Toronto that she'd ever become a
social worker. She joined The
Telegram staff and launched her
career as a general reporter,
movie critic, women's editor,
features editor and political
writer.
Due to her job, Miss, Allen
covered may welfare
assignments. Her warmth and
feeling for people showed
through, and she acquired a wide
knowledge of the field.
When the idea of Today's Child
was born at the Telegram Miss
Allen was a natural to persue the
column. She has been dedicated
to the column and to the adoption
ofhard-to-place children ever
sine.
Today's, Child now appears in
22 daily newspapers and 155
weeklies. Helen Allen now is an
employee of the Ontario
government's Ministry of
Community and Social Services
and the picture-story of a child
needing adoption is also handled
,by that Ministry, too.
"The column had been so
successful in The Telegram, that
when the paper folded in 1971,
the government did not want to
see the column lost along with the
newspaper," Miss Allen
commented. "And I went with
the column."
The Family Finder is seen On 12
television channels across the
province.
When Today's Child began,
only three Children's Aid
Societies out 55 in the province
Toronto, H amilton and Kenora -
were willing to have their
children pictured and written up
in the newspaper. The three-
week pilot project was very
successful. Out of 23 children
whose pictures appeared in the
newspaper, 18 were adopted.
Then the requests started
pouring in and a further six weeks
was planned-for the column.
"That six weeks is still going
on," Miss Allen smiled.
At the start, pseudonyms were
used for the children, Then an
older child °named Tommy
objected to having a name other
than his own used. He said he'd
told all the kids at school that his
picture was to be in Today's Child
and he thought it would look silly
to have some other name attached
to his picture.
' "From then on, all the older
children were asked whether they
wanted to use their own names or
a pseudonym," Miss Allen said,
showing once again tier genuine
concern for her young charges.
"Most want to use their own
names,"
During the years of Today's
Child, four se is of seven children
-from one family have been
adopted as units. One set went to
a doctor and his wife; one group
to a minister and his wife; one to
an average middle class family;
and the final one to a childless
couple in the armed forces.
"I've often wondered just what
kind of change occurred in that
home where they went from no
children to seven children in one
day," said Miss Allen.
More black and native families
are adopting children these days,
Miss Allen ;noted. Consequently,
more effort is being made the
Children's Aid Socieities to place
Indian, Eskimo and black children
in homes of their own race.
And -there - • is • a.- growing
acceptance of problem children -
youngsters with learning
disasbilities, emotional problems,
physical limitations and medical
difficulties all are being adopted
into good homes where they are
accepted and loved.
There are fewer infants for
adoption these days because of;
the improved birth control
methods and the accessibility of
abortion. As well, fewer older
children are available for
adoption through CAS because of
the trend toward keeping children
in their natural families whenever
possible.
"The CAS will take children
into care temporarily while
mother straightens out her
emotional problems or father
sorts out his liquor problems,"
Miss Allen commented. "They
will put housekeepers into homes
and do everything to rehabilitate
a family so that -kirti can either
stay at home or return to the
home after a while."
While single parents who want
to adopt children are discouraged
because of the belief that the
ideal situation is where both a
mother and a father are in the
home, in, some exceptional
circumstances. adoption Fu single
parents is. permitted. Miss Allen
noted an increase in the
number of single men who are
applying for children to adopt.
"There have been some really
successful single parent
adoptions," she said.
Today's Child is a more
effective means of finding
adopting families than The
Family Finder on television.
"That's probably because the
television program is more easily
forgotten after it is over," Miss
Allen admitted. "The newspaper
stays in the home and makes a
greater and longer impression on
families. But I suppose you 1. Ulihi
say that one complements the
other. A child who appears on
television may turn up in the
newspaper - or vice versa."
She also believes that Today's
Child has been so successful
because it provides prospective
parents with 'some say about the
child they select. Often times the
picture of a particular child will
appeal to a family for whatever
reason, and a good home is found
where it otherwise could not have
been.
What's more, children have a
great deal to say about the homes
into which they will go. The child
is given plenty of time to assess
the home through weekend visits
and holidays. He • must feel
optional* there and want to go
there. No child is forced into a
'situation anymore than a family is
pressured into taking the child.
"It must be a mutual feeling -
the parents for the child, the child
for the ,,,parents,, Miss,'Mn'k
pointed out,
While Miss Mntp has Ootbing
to do with placing the children
she puts' before the public, she is
keenly interested in her children,
and keeps traci' of many of them.
She has some warm and
wonderful stories to relate about
the adoptions with which the has
been involved.
She has mixed feeliIngs abput
presesnt government investiga-
tion into allowing adopted
children Alma. they. become -Of
age, to know about their natural
parents.
She tells about a Toronto
mother of four who is totally
distraught by recent legislation in
No Scotia which permits an 18
year old to know his or her
parental background and the last
known address of his or her
parents. This woman has never
told her husband or her family
about the child born to her in
Nova SOtia, opw WOW
that tha chi4rivill- turn up ono day
11.1 zaonto do,ttq .00t.
relationship with het :present
family.
But there are some eases, Miss
Allen says, .whtte. P4ting
children and parents together
even after many long years of
separation can be a beautiful
thing: feels that it should be
possible to, unite where it is
desirable, and to protect parents
and children where this is best
atO where adoption is
concerned, Miss Allen has a
positive outlook. She believes in
adoption with all her heart, and
would, like to find homes for all
children who require them.
She may be moving closer to
her goal. This week, in fact, the
daily Today's Child will appear
only three or four times a week
because there are less and less
children n ceding homes all the
time.
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