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Home Study
Cathy directed Pali and Freeman to contact their local welfare office in Rappahannock. There, welfare officer Sylvia Kreitler conducted a home study, the purpose of which is to evaluate both the home and the intentions of prospective adoptive parents. "A social worker ascertains what the reasons are for your wanting to adopt a child,” explained Pali. “Possibly the worst reason is the idea of doing good—of saving a child... thousands and thousands of people (during the Christmas season) suddenly get hit by the altruistic spirit of saving some poor orphan off the streets without the foggiest idea of the true magnitude of adopting a child. . .It’s not like picking up some stray dog, making sure it has food and shelter. That’s YOUR CHILD—part of your family.”
After the Allans survived the preliminary screening, they were faced with the task of choosing front among hundreds of pictures, the child who would be their own. Again, Pali explained, “We were set on getting a little girl because we had a little boy, Gabriel, who at that time was about eight months old. We looked through the pages of pictures of the children up for adoption and sure enough
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