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Julia Scotton, an Altadena, Calif., mother, echoes many parents in hoping Jack and Jill will even increase the chances that her kids will date and then marry other blacks. When her son T.C., one of a handful of blacks at his high school, needed to find a date to take to last year's winter dance, Scotton gave him the list of Jack and Jill families with teenage girls. Of course, it remains to be seen how much effect such efforts will ultimately have on kids in a post-civil rights era. T.C. did take a black girl to the dance. But that was only after he discovered his first two choices already had dates, and one of those choices was white.