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4The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, October 26, 1983
Adoption process slow these days
By CLINTON WEAVER
Staff Writer
Single parenthood and an increasing number of abortions
are slowing the adoption process for parents who want
children.
Jean Johnson, director of professional services for the
Children's Home Society of North Carolina, helps prospective
parents adopt children through her Greensboro office, but she
says abortions and single parenthood are making her job more
difficult.
"In this day and time, there are so many more couples that
want to adopt than there are babies," she says. "We simply
cannot help everybody that wants to adopt a child.
"There's a trend that's apparent now in the changing
mores," Johnson says. "More people are keeping their babies
as single parents. There's less stigma in doing that than there
used to be. That's really the big trend."
Sandy Martin, supervisor for the Raleigh office of
Children's Home, has also seen the trend. Many more pro
spective parents applied to her office than the number of
available children.
"There are a lot of couples that are not fertile," she says,
but there are other reasons for the slow adoption process.
A Raleigh caseworker, Debbie Christos, says the abortion
laws passed in 1972 mean fewer pregnancies are brought to
term, so fewer children are put up for adoption. But, like
Johnson and Martin, Christos points to the increasing number
of single-parent mothers.
Johnson began working for Children's Home in 1957, when
the situation was different. 'Tn those days, this (pregnancy out
of wedlock) was just a terrible problem that they (mothers)
didn't want anyone to know about," she says. "They wanted
to handle everything in the strictest confidence. . . . We had
more cases than we could handle."
The agency's Child Care Center had 22 cribs then, and 200
to 300 children were placed each year. Now there are six cribs
at the center, all unoccupied, and 193 babies were placed last
year.
More than 2,100 couples asked to adopt children, however,
which meant a lot of parents left Children's Home disap
pointed. "There's no way in the world we could work with 2,100
people," Johnson says. "They have to be turned down and
they don't like that. It hurts their feelings, and I can under
stand that, because all they want to do is be a parent and have
a family.
"I don't know what it feels like not to be able to produce a
child for your husband when you want one more than any
thing in the world. That must be devastating.
"And then when you wait. We're talking about perfectly
adequate people who've never had to ask for anything before.
It's hard to be on the other side of the desk and beg for a
child."
Despite those problems, Johnson says she feels the
Children's Home will continue to thrive. "We have never
closed our doors, and I don't think we're going to. There are
still many children that need us, and as long as that is true,
we're still going to be in business."
The Children's Home Society was begun in 1902, when a
group of men realized there was a need for an adoption agency
in Greensboro. Accurate records weren't kept until the 1940s,
so no one knows how many children have found homes during
the last 81 years. But, Johnson says, "We know it's more than
.10,000."
Now nine district offices comprise Children's Home. They
are located in Charlotte, Asheville, Fayetteville, Raleigh,
Greenville, Wilmington, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and
Jacksonville. The home is funded by private contributions and
grants by Reynolds Health Care Trust and Duke Endowment,
among others. The United Way provides 20 to 23 percent of
the agency's $1 million budget. ' ' ' '
Adoptive parents can also contribute to the agency. "Peo
ple who benefit from our services believe in it, and they are
willing to help support us," Johnson says.
They can choose from two separate programs. The baby
program involves care for infants at the Child Care Clinic,
where three nurses work full time. The other program, the
Inter-Agency Placement Program, involves finding homes for
older children who are in the custody of agencies such as the
state Department of Social Services.
"If they don't have a suitable home for a 9-, 10- or 12-year-old,
if we have a home, we'll be glad to share it with them,"
Johnson says. "Our babies get the very best of care early in
life. They're not just put in a foster home and left."
Placements take from one to two years, and Children's
Home placed 148 infants and 45 children in 1982. That's the
best part of adoption when a child finds a happy home.
"It's our privilege to see the greatest joy that you can
imagine," Johnson says. "They (parents) are just simply
ecstatic. They don't even act normal.
"Some of them are just in a daze, in a state of shock. The
joy that you see I think this is one of the real satisfactions
you get working for an adoption agency.
"You can see the results."
It took almost two years for a Raleigh woman to adopt a
child from Children's Home, but to her the wait was worm it.
The woman, who asked not to be identified, finally received a
"happy letter" from the agency in January 1978, saying that
she might adopt a child named Shannon.
"It was worded so it sounds like you will get a child, but you
don't know when or where," she says. "But you're never pre
pared for the day when they call you to tell you (that) you can
adopt. It's just so exciting."
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Friday said. "In fact, we would encourage them
to do so."
During his tenure, Friday has watched UNC
gain national recognition as a leading university.
This wouldn't have been possible, he said,
without the school's faculty.
"I can't praise these people enough. They do
their jobs with a high sense of devotion and I
salute them," Friday said.
Friday appears almost unchanged after 27
years in office. "I've gotten gray, and some of
the pounds I carry have moved around. I walk
now instead of run," he said. The problem is
"not enough exercise, not enough diversion
from the job."
Is retirement on Bill Friday's mind? "I'm 63
years old and I really haven't made any plans,"
he said. "It's nearly two years away.
"Mrs. Friday and I have had a happy life
43 years of marriage and three grown
daughters," Friday said, adding that his one
regret in life was that he didn't spend enough
time with them. "If I could do it all over again,
I'd make the job a litde more secondary," he
said.
Asked to describe himself, he said Bill Friday
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"We have learned that once laws are enacted,
it is nearly impossible to get them changed. We
need to get on with change; we need to get on
with answering questions."
After serving as the EPA head from 1970 to
1973, Ruckelshaus was the acting director of the
FBI for about 90 days in 1973 and was involved
in the Watergate hearings.
"Having cracked that, I moved on,'
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siders it a privilege to be associated with the
University, and one who has benefited personal
ly from .such an association all his life."
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ty attorney general. In 1969-70, he was also an
assistant attorney general in charge of civil
disturbances. From 1975 until his ronfirmation
as EPA head on May 17, Ruckelshaus was a
senior vice president in the Weyerhaeuser Co. in
Tacoma, Wash.
The speech was co-sponsored by the UNC
School of Public Health and the School of
Public Health Alumni Association.
From page 1
Although the state could take its case
before the grand jury, Barber said he ex
pected the dismissal to be the final
chapter in the final chapter in the case.
William Newman said after the hearing
that the events leading to the shooting
had been building up for many years. His
son had some type of "irritation"- from
birth and none of the doctors could pin
point it, he said.
Craig Newman had returned to Chapel
Hill on Aug. 7 after five years of moving
to different parts of the country. William
Newman said his son had become in
creasingly ill and unstable. He had
physically assaulted both of his parents
prior to the shooting, Newman said.
Police had intervened in the problems
on Oct. 11, when Craig Newman became
violent after an incident in a Chapel Hill
bank. Chapel Hill and Campus Police
were summoned to the alley outside of
the Porthole Restaurant. After an inci
dent on the morning of Oct. 12 when
Craig knocked his mother to the floor,
the Newmans decided it was time for him
to leave their home.
"Our son comes out looking like an
ogre, but he was actually a nice kid on the
other side of the schizophrenia,"
Newman said.
"He was always apologizing for the
trouble he caused, said he wanted to
repay us, which was pathetically sad,"
Newman said.
Craig Newman had psychoanalysis
when he was young, and he saw his life as
a series of defeats, his father said.
Claire Newman, his mother, said they
constantly tried to get their son to seek
help, but he had convinced himself that
he did not need it. The younger Newman
had no criminal record or known use of
drugs, she said.
"One tends to give the most love to the
most -handicapped child," William
Newman said. "Our loss is overwhelm
ing." The whole incident is a failure on
our part to solve the problem, Newman
said.
William Newman retired from the
University in 1977. He is an international
ly known musicologist and is active in
publishing and research. He is currently
doing reasearch at the National
Humanities Center in Research Triangle
Park. Newman, a faculty member for 38
years, became a distinguished professor
of music in 1962.
Marilyn Thompson to perform tonight:
Soprano Marilyn Thompson will give'a repertoire ranges from Baroque to con
free concert tonight at 8:30 in the Great temporary music. She also sings music by
Hall of the Carolina Union. Thompson's black American composers. The Carolina
Union, which is sponsoring the concert,
will hold a reception for Thompson im
mediately after the program.
Campus Ca l e ni a r
Public service announcements must be turned into the box outside the DTH offices in the Carolina Union by 1 p.m. if
they arc to be ma the next day. Only announcements front University recognized and campus organizations will be printed.
Al anBoaacements must be smiled to 25 words and can only run for two days. In the event that the Calendar does not run
became of space limitations, groups should turn hi announcements at least two days in advance to ensure they run at least
once.
TODAY'S ACTIVIllhS
Young Voters for Tom Gil more, Democratic candidate for
governor will meet si 8:30 p.m. in Room 210 of the Union.
Interested a MBA School? Come to the '83 MBA Forum
from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Great Hall. School representatives
will be available to answer questions.
Environmental Seminar: Dr. Susan Hadden, Professor of
Public Policy in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Af
fairs at the University of Texas, will discuss the "Labeling of
Hazardous Substance" at noon in 323 Rosenau Hall.
The Carolina Symposium will meet for a pot luck dinner
discussion at 3:30 p.m. in the Union. All are welcome.
' Interested improving Black-White relations on campus?
Meet at 9 p.m. in Morrison Lounge.
The Food and Health Affairs Committee will meet at 5 p.m.
in the Union. Contact Steve Knox if you can't be there.
The Anglican Student Fellowship invited everyone to Holy
Communion at 10 p.m. at the Chapd of the Cross.
The Sigma Dove Sweetheart Court will hold a bake sale and
sell pumpkin notes in front of the Union from 9 a.m. to 3:30
p.m.
Toronto Exchange Day is today in the Pit. Drop by and have
some fun while promoting a cultural exchange between UNC
and the University of Toronto.
An organizational meeting will be held for all students in
terested in participating in all AB-Campus United Nations
simulation at 7:30 p.m. in the Union.
There will be an Amnesty International follow-up meeting at
7:30 p.m. in the Union.
"Miracle at Pittron" a film documentary presenting a
Christian response to labor-management struggles will be
shown at 7:30 p.m. in room 21 1 of the Union.
Alpha Chi Sigma will meet at 7 p.m. in 224 V enable.
Orientation-Resume Writing Workshop will be held at 1:30
p.m. in 210 Hanes Hall. Attendance at an Orientation meeting
is mandatory to interview oh campus.
Combined Forces will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Union.
The Baptist Student Union Council will meet at 6:1$ p.m. at
the Baptist Student. Unioju,. , .j,, ....!. .
' COMING EVENTS " "
The Baptist Student Union's Thursday program will be at
5:45 and will feature Bert Welch, youth and college minister '
from the First Baptist Church in Raleigh, speaking on "Chris
tian Lifestyles."
There will be an informational meeting of the Carolina Field
Hockey Club Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Union.
The Carolina Photography Club and Carolina Union
Gallery Committee will meet together Thursday at 7 p.m. in
the Union. . , .
The UNC-CH Pre-Law Club will meet Thursday at 3:15
p.m. in the Union.
Attention Big Buddies: Remember Thursday is our first event
of the year. Come with your little buddy, dressed for Hallo
ween fun, to the Alpha Delta Pi house on Rosemary St.
Learn to skydive: If you have jumped before or are in
terested in making a first jump, come by the Union at 6:30
p.m. Thursday for a meeting.
IVCF South Chapter will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. in the
Avery social lounge. Dr. Bill Wilson, a psychiatrist at the Duke
Medical Center, will speak on "Showing Christ in you
locally". All are welcome.
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes will meet Thursday at
8:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Union.
IVCF Mid-Campus will present "Sharing Your Secret of
Success," and a chapter meeting on evangelism will be held
Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Union.
The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity will hold a party from 10 p.m.
until 2 a.m. Saturday in Upendo Lounge.
The Industrial Relations Association will hold a meeting
Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Union.
Alexsander Sobhentisyn's Nobd Prize acceptance speech
will be illustrated in "One Word of Truth," a film to be
presented at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in 100 Hamilton Hall.
Billy Rice and Lucy Inabet win share their summer missions
experiences at the IVCF Granville Chapter meeting Thursday
at 7 p.m. in Granville South's lower lounge.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
The Student Government Hotline is now open for informa
tional services Monday-Friday from I p.m. to S p.m. Answer
ing service is also available 24 hours a day. Pick up the phone
and give us a call at 962-5200.
Alcohol Support Group: Has a family member of friend's .
drinking influenced your bfe? You're not alone. Come share
with others facing similar problems. No fee. Group meets
Wednesdays from 4 p.m. to S p.m. in the Health Education
Suite (2nd floor) of the SHS.
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