Local adoption effort launched
The Children's Hpme Society in
behalf of school-age children and
children with special needs work
with children who wait in public
foster car for a permanent family.
Nine hundred twenty-eight of
the children in public foster care
were legally free for adoption in
July of this year according to the
N.C. Department of Human
Resources.
. The Children's Home Society
serves as a homefinding resource
for some of these children who are
referred by other agencies.
Adoption is a word of hope and
waiting for the many school-age
children in foster care in North
Carolina. They are waiting for
families to be found that can give
them the love and security they
need now - while they are growing
up. Yes - childhood is short and
these children are waiting.
Adoption is a learning and
growing experience for both
parents and children. School-age
children come into a family with a
past and with a personality. Love
doesn't happen instantly.
It grows through sharing daily
experiences, through a gradually
unfolding sense of mutual accep
tance and trust.
Experience has taught us that
older child adoptions can be
mutually rewarding and satisfying.
While the older child lacks the
baby-face cuteness of the tradi
tional newborn, he has a great
desire to belong, a sense of com
mitment towards having a family.
For some families, the older
child fits better into family plans
and lifestyles.
The Children's Home Society
can help couples increase the size
of their family by adopting a
school-age child, no matter where
they live in the State.
For most families, there is not a
long waiting period to adopt older
children. These range from about
seven to 15 years of age.
Some of them are part of a fami
ly group of brothers and sisters
and others are all alone. Many of
these children have special needs
because of handicaps or emotional
problems. Often the child's age
becomes a handicap.
It is not always easy to find
homes for children after age IS,
although they still need the support
and love a family can offer.
Children available for adoption
may have a variety of different
needs. Therapy is not an uncom
mon need for older children who
move into adoption.
Therapy can help a child under
stand and accept his past while in
creasing his self-esteem and con
fidence in himself and his new life.
Some children have medical
problems or need help with school
work.
Other children are mentally han
dicapped and will need extra help
for the rest of their lives.
Children sometimes go into
foster care with siblings and have a
need to remain with their brothers
and sisters in an adoptive home.
The Children's Home Society
placed 142 infants in adoptive
homes during 1983.
Families were prepared for
adoption through home studies, a
series of interviews meant to
educate families about adoption
and to help the agency evaluate a
family's readiness for adoptive
parenthood.
The Children's Home Society is
not able to work with every family
interested in adopting a baby.
Founded in 1902, The
Children's Home Society is the
oldest adoption agency in North
Carolina and from its origin, has
been committed to serving all of
North Carolina.
Persons interested in adopting a
child should contact the CHS
Fayetteville office at 407 Ray
Avenue, Suite 208, Fayetteville,
N.C., 28202 or by telephone
483-8913.
Waiting for a family
Al, Roger and WUbor are waiting for a family who can embrace three ac
tive sons. These brothers are ages 10, nine, and five.
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