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The impossible comes true every day
By imam K. TARR
Four-year-old Mark was Iwo
with neither arms nor legs.
Doctors could offer no ex-
planation for the overwhelming
deformity and handicap..
The distraught parents
decided they could not provide
adequate care and attention in
the, family setting, They felt
perhaps an institution offered
the best possible future' in the
circumstances,
But Helen Allen drew him to
the attention of readers of her
newspaper column Today's
Child, and more than 50
couples offered to adopt him.
Today Merit, now 6 and at-
tending kindergarten, is' hap-
pily settled in his new home
with his adoptive parents and
two older brothers and, a sister.
"The most satisfying ex-
perience of my life and the
highlight of my career in adop-
tive work", says Miss Allen of
the adoption of Mark. •
Helen Allen is not given to
extravagant speech, but she
adds: "The past 10 years have
been the most satisfying and
exciting decade of my 'life;
She's referring to the time
that she has presided over the
column Today's Child which
has been responsible for the
adoption of thousands of
children.
Mark's case, though
remarkable, is only one of a
series of miracles in placing
children.
Seven Ojibwa children from.
a broken family in the Brant-
ford area will look back with
gratitude on Helen.
They were featured with the
hope that they could be adop-
ted as a unit. The usually op.,
timistic columnist confessed:.
"This is an impossible dream."
Impossible or not, it happened.
Stan and Gwena Morrill, of
Brantford, read of the seven
children (three of them adop-
ted). They submitted the adop-
tion proposal to their "family
hour", pointing out that the
adoption of seven children
would mean major re-
ad justments and the- can-
cellation of the planned holiday
to Arizona.
The unanimous vote' was to
proceed.
Stan Morrill, who is Ontario
director of Christian Education
for the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints (Morinon
Church), simply states: "We
can't reject a child in need." •
The column 'originated in
response to a suggestion of Dr.
James S. Band, then deputy
minister of social and family
services in Ontario.
Andrew MacFarlane, then
managing editor of the Toronto
Telegram, agreed to a three=
week trial run of a column
which would acquaint the
puhlic with hard-to-place
children available for adoption.
"We assigned Helen to the
job because she was probably
the best reporter in the place",
recalls MacFarlane,
The Children's Aid Societies
in Ontario were not en-
thusiastic with the announced
project,
Only three of the 55 societies
in the province would have
anything to do with it. Mies
Allen managed to line up pic,
tures of 23 children who were
to be featured over the trial
period.
Eighteen of the 23 were soon
adopted.
The first column appeared on
June 6, 1964. Helen Allen fon-
dly recalls that first child.
"She was part Negro, a
beautiful child, 15 months old,
and perhaps her name -- Hope -
- was prOphetic. We got 40 let-
ters for her within a week."
Hope quickly found a home.
.When the three weeks trial
period ended, there could be no
turning back. Today's Child
was to be a permanent
newspaper feature.
Then 10 years have wit-
nessed a remarkable record.
Four sets of children have
been adopted by non-relatives,
208 persons answered one plea
for a family to adopt a group of
seven sisters.
And retarded children have
also found homes through the
column. In 1972, nine were
adopted. Recently the first
child with DoWn's Syndrome
(mongolism) found parents.
Since the inauguration of
Today's Child, there has been a
' Giant had a big bean stalk
in his back yard. He climbed it
every day to visit his friend
Jack, who lived in the land in
the clouds. One day a dragon
stole Jack's hen, who laid
golden eggs, and he took
Jack's mother, too! He
breathed on, them and turned
them to ice. Jack ran to the
bRa114tAlk-,takt,tQi.4n.t.to help:
him. Giant put his tiny
mother in one pocket and
Jack in the other and set out
for the dragon's castle in the
mountains. Near the gates, he
pulled up two trees by the
roots. He asked his mother to
light a match for him and
made huge torches out of the
trees. But the dragon's cold
breath blew the torches out.
And then he turned Giant into
a statue of ice. Giant's
mother had brought along
some seeds from the magic
bean stalk. Jack threw them
at the dragon, while Giant's
mother got some water from
a nearby stream. As soon as
she threw the water on the
beans, they started to sprout,
steady increase in the number
of older children who have
been adopted in Ontario. Of the
5,880 adopted in 1972, for in-
stance, more than five percent
were over a year old.
The whole adoption picture
in Ontario has been radically
altered and improved in those
10 years. Now older children,
handicapped children, and
those with mixed blood are
routinely adopted, Large family
groups are adopted intact,
Ontario Children's Aid
Societies have come to
recognize Helen Allen as a
friend. Mrs. Victoria Leach,
Ontario Adoptive Co-ordinator
and Miss Allen's closest
collaborator, is candid.
"Helen Allen has led the way
in showing that adoption is the
responsibility not only of the
social agencies but of the com-
munity at large", she says.
No one knows exactly how
many children have been
placed through Today's Child.
An extensive 17-month survey
revealed that one of every three
couples who wrote •to the
column did adopt some child.
Using that yardstick, it is con-
servatively estimated that the
column had been responsible
for placing 6,500 children by
the end of 1973.
In addition, of course, other
couples were doubtless
motivated to consider adoption
through reading the daily
column but proceeded to apply
for a child without reference to
it.
The Toronto Telegram, for
which Helen Allen worked 42
years, and which provided a
Soon the dragon was
surrounded by a thick jungle
of bean stalks. His icy breath
bounced back at him and
turned him into a statue of
ice. Jack and Giant's mother
went into the castle and
thawed out Jack's mother
and their hen. Then they
worked for four days to thaw
out Giant. When they went
home, they ,left the frozen
dragon standing outside his
castle.
Copyright AVS Technical
Services, 1972.
home for Today's Child for its
first 7 1 /2 years, ceased
publication in 1971. At that
time, the column appeared in
20 other papers in the province,
The Ontario government
recognized that the column
must not die.
The Ministry of Community
and .Social Service took over
the column and newspaper.
woman Helen Allen• became an
employee of the l , provincial.
government, Today's Child
now appears in 24 newspapers
and 155 weeklies,
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TODAY'S CHILD
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Tommy is a lively, uninhibited eight-year-old — an engaging
youngster in both looks and personality.
Anglo-Saxon in descent, he is healthy and slim with brown
eyes, blonde hair and fair skin.
Tommy craves attention so he prefers the company of older
people, either children or adults, Because Tommy was restless
and easily distracted he spent longer than usual in kindergarten,
Last year he was an averageiGrade One student, and now, in
Grade Two, he loves school, A creative boy, he enjoys drawing
and coloring. Tommy is interested in music and is now learning
card games and chess. If an eight-year-old can be said to have a
hobby, Tommy's would be mechanics.
Tommy loves camping, fishing and swimming. He plays
baseball and is planning to join Cubs.
Affectionate Tommy needs, much love, along with attention
mid stimulation. Young involved parents who can be both warm
and firm will find him a fine son. Older brothers and sisters (but
not younger ones) will be an asset in Tommy's adopting family.
To inquire about adopting Tommy, please write to Today's
Child; Ministry of Community and Social Services, Box 888,
Station K, Toronto M4P 2112. For general information;consult
your Children's Aid Society,
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