After some initial obstacles, they adopt a six-week-old, blonde, blue-eyed baby boy, who actually looks like Carl.

They face a lot of resistance from the agencies due to their financial situation as well as the fact that they already have a child.

A social worker makes a stray comment about a Turkish-Portuguese baby that they cannot place, saying "That's what happens with those mixed-blood children...Nobody wants them.

Helen and Carl realize that other agencies may not feel the same way and decide to pursue adoption of "unadoptable children."

Two weeks later they adopt Susie, who is blond with blue eyes, but considered unadoptable because she is frail/sickly and has a birth mark on her face.