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The article focuses on the trend of adoption by a single parent, which is due to high illegitimacy rate in the U.S. It states that adoption agencies are no longer choosy in selecting foster parents as adoptive couples are hard to come by especially if the child is older or has a mixed race. It adds that many single men and women have opted for adoption however, agencies are cautious in screening applicants and wary of individuals who only want the child to cure loneliness.

The article reports on the improvements in foster home programs in the U.S. with its social conscience, productive economy, and better medical care. It mentions the efforts in addressing the conditions of children in the nation's orphanages through the concept of foster care. Moreover, it provides information on ideal foster parents who have a good marriage and those who love and understand children and the importance of knowing that the child will only stay with them for a brief time.

The article discusses the issue of transracial adoption in the U.S. It says that in 1970, 2,200 black babies were adopted by white parents and compared with only 700 in 1968 and in 1971 the number reached 10,000. The author says that the trend is fueling partly by changing racial attitudes and by an acute shortage of white babies resulting from widespread use of contraceptive pills, easier abortion laws and an increasing number of unwed mothers who keep their offspring. Discussing the psychological aspects, the author observes that establishing a sense of identity is hard for many adopted children and this will be even harder for the transracial children.

The article reports on the issues regarding the psychoanalytic insight to child's custody law citing the book "Beyond the Best Interests of the Child," by Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud, and Albert Solnit. It states that the parent who wins the child's custody decides about the life of the child and that the courts must not be involved in enforcing visiting privileges of parents. It mentions the importance of early and continuing relationship between child and mother in child development studies.

The article discusses the law for adoption which seals the adoption and birth records. It highlights the meeting of the adopted California woman with her natural mother at the age of 25 and the effort of the Adoptee's Liberty Movement Association, that has 1,800 member, in changing the existing statutes regarding adoption in the U.S. It evaluates the social implication caused in the secrecy of illegitimate birth.

The article reports on the South Vietnamese children who became orphans in 1968, wherein only few of them found homes on the U.S. It states that Lee Sanne Buchanan who had adopted a Vietnamese baby boy, joined in an exclusive parent's groups in the U.S. She then resurrected a dormant aid organization to provide food and care for the orphans and to oil the adoption machinery. Buchanan's organization is now known as Friends for All Children and operates in 23 states which is one of the U.S. agencies processing adoptions from South Vietnam. Furthermore, it notes that there are approximately 800,000 orphans in South Vietnam.

The article focuses on the issues of adoption in the U.S. The federal welfare officials estimate that 2,000,000 of the 80 million Americans under 18 live with adoptive parents and the number of adoptions has increased over 50% in the past decade, from 93,000 to 142,000 annually. According to coordinator of Washington state's adoptive agencies Louise Guenther, they are the seekers now, not the critics.

This section offers news briefs about prominent personalities in the U.S. as of March 1954. Movie actress Marilyn Monroe appeared on open-air stages in a cocktail dress before U.S. troops in Korea. The New York Supreme Court has decided that the two sons of executed spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg will be adopted by songwriter Abel Meeropol and his wife. Twentieth Century Fox filed a lawsuit against movie actor Marlon Brando for taking off from the set of his movie "The Egyptian."

The article reports on the adoption of five siblings from orphanages in Virginia by American Airlines captain Elkins Floyd and his wife Mary Floyd who live in Los Angeles, California. The couple hesitated at first in adopting five youngsters, but the children took to them immediately. The eldest, Nellie Marie who was 13 when adopted by the Floyds, thanked his adoptive parents on television for giving them normal lives.

The article reports on the results on adoption case of Gloria Combs and Dick Combs for their foster child Alice Marie in Old Bridge, New Jersey. It denied their request because the Board of Child Welfare believes the child is too bright to remain in the couple's television-centered household. Meanwhile, psychologists noted that the high intelligence quotient (IQ) of Alice is attributed to environment and heredity and the couple is largely responsible for her high score.

The article focuses on the efforts of prosperous farmer Harry Holt and his wife Bertha of Creswell, Oregon to adopt the Korean children who were abandoned by their parents. It says that Harry started his crusade after he saw a documentary film showing the plight of American Korean babies. Harry built his orphanage in Seoul, Korea that is being supervised by two of his daughters and turned the playroom in their house into an office and hired secretaries to deal with requests from foster parents.

The article focuses on the application for adoption filed by Charles E. Dameron to the Montgomery County Social Service League. It mentions that Dameron and his wife Lona want to adopt a baby boy for their adopted daughter Dori. It states that the league refused Dameron's application because of financial considerations. It adds that the league indicated that bringing a child who has an average mentality with Dori who exhibits high intelligent quotient (IQ) could cause difficulty for both.

The article focuses on the raids on the orphanages in Rome, Italy, and discusses the living conditions of children in them. It reports that Italian police conducted surprise raids in 286 orphanages and children's homes in the city in February 1971. It reports that in the raids several institutes were found to be unheated and unclean, and the children were provided inadequate clothing and food.