2The Daily Tar Heel Friday, September 12, 1986
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NoCo adoption's ipcreagedl this -y. ear
By KAREN McMANIS
Staff Writer
North Carolina adoption agencies
are reporting an increased interest in
adoption this year, due in part to
a media campaign by the Children's
Home Society of Greensboro.
The society, a private, non-profit
organization, has been running a
series of newspaper, radio and
television advertisements since July.
The ads promote its free and con
fidential counseling services and toll
free number, said Audrey Poe,
public relations specialist for the
society.
"Before the campaign, we aver
aged about 40 calls a month," Poe
said. "Now we receive almost 400,
most of them from young women
between the ages of 14 and 24 whom
our campaign is designed to reach."
Poe said the campaign was
designed to increase public aware
ness about the options available to
pregnant women.
"Many people thought we were an
orphanage," she said. We want to
emphasize that we're not an orphan
age, we're someone you can talk to."
Poe said that although the society
is an adoption advocate, the coun
selors also present young women
with other options. "Our goal is to
emphasize that adoption is a good
choice too," Poe said. "Both those
who favor abortion and those who
do not are very vocal in our society.
We want to make our voice heard
also."
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The Children's Home Society
expects to place over 200 babies this
year, almost 50 more than last year.
Other agencies across the state are
also reporting an increased interest
in adoption.
Rebecca Lawhon, a counselor for
Family Services Inc. in Winston
Salem, said that she felt the media
campaign launched by the Children's
Home Society was characteristic of
a new national awareness concerning
adoption. Lawhon said that more
publicity was being given to the
adoption alternative for women
experiencing difficult pregnancies.
She said that Family Services tries
to counsel young women on all the
options available to them. The
number of women choosing to adopt
has doubled over the last year, she
estimated.
Katherine Estridge, a counselor
with Bethany Christian Services, a
Christian adoption and counseling
service based in Asheville, said she
had also seen an increase in adoption
over the last two years.
Estridge said that three years ago,
the service was able to place only
eight babies in new homes, but that
last year alone, they placed 27.
The service counsels about 100
young women a year and receives
many more phone calls to its toll
free number, which is advertised on
billboards across the state.
The service, which is the second
largest adoption agency in the state,
plans to open offices in Charlotte
and Raleigh sometime during the
next year, Estridge said.
She attributed the growing
number of young women who are
choosing adoption to better educa
tion about pregnancy and the
options open to pregnant women.
The representatives from all three
agencies emphasized that despite the
increase in women giving their babies
up for adoption, there are still many
more people waiting to adopt babies.
"This year we have over 2,000
couples who want to adopt and only
200 babies available," Poe said. "It's
still a very long wait."
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The vote of 392-1 6 sent the bill
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Islamic Jihad denies,
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Child video ID program held
By JUSTIN McGUIRE
Staff Writer
The Department of Radio, Tele
vision and Motion Pictures is spon
soring a fingerprint and videotape
child identification program today
and Saturday.
Robert J. Normandin, director of
operations for RTVMP, said the
purpose of the program was to make
a record of kids showing their
mannerisms and voice tones, which
can be very useful in identifying
them.
Officer Robert Frick of the Chapel
Hill Police Department is overseeing
the fingerprinting of the children.
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parents must bring their own VHS
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he said.
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