Word: children
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...Mirrors. Amy Garrett was the first child to be chosen through an intriguing new adoption method. Video tape promises to eliminate much of the potential trauma of adoption procedures while making it far easier for agencies to unite prospective parents and children from different parts of the country. It was Norman W. Paget, 45, executive director of the Erie County Children's Aid Society, who thought of employing video tape in adoption after watching the instant replays used for televised pro-football games...
...Some children, especially if they are handicapped or are older than one year, are rejected by adoptive parents at their first direct meeting. To minimize such disturbing experiences, agencies often give couples their first view of the child through one-way mirrors or arrange "accidental" meetings in the park. These devices assume that the parents and child live in the same area, and even then are by no means surefire: many a ccuple, emotionally on edge, blurt the accidental-meeting game away in the first sentence...
...miles away. By viewing the video tape, the Garretts saw Amy more vividly than they could have through any number of snapshots and verbal descriptions, made the trip south with virtual certainty of success. Paget would like to see his method become a two-way proposition that allows older children up for adoption to get a videotape look at their prospective parents...
...Garrett video-tape showing was private, but most "special needs" children-those who are older, have handicaps or come from racial minority groups-are so hard to place that the Los Angeles County Department of Adoptions has taken to broadcasting their availability on commercial TV. Since October, the department has shown 64 such children on a once-weekly quarter-hour segment of Ben Hunter's Matinee, a program of old movies interspersed with talk. Result: up to 35 phone calls immediately following each show and 34 of the children adopted, including a two-year-old boy with eye trouble...
Divorced. Dr. Jonas Salk, 53, developer of the first widely used polio vaccine; by Donna Lindsay Salk, 51; on grounds of extreme cruelty; after 28 years of marriage, three children; in San Diego...