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Monday's Child

Monday's Child: Velveth

Monday's Child: Velveth

Velveth is a lovable little girl with a lot of love to give.

Monday's Child: Dominick

Monday's Child: Dominick

Dominick, 13, loves to tell jokes and make people laugh.  His counselor describes Dominick as a sweet child who gets along well with everyone.

Monday's Child: Chuck

Monday's Child: Chuck

Chuck will be a blessing to an adoptive home.

Monday's Child: Jason

Monday's Child: Jason

12-year-old Jason is a high energy child who can be very affectionate once he feels comfortable with someone.

Monday's Child: Cody

Monday's Child: Cody

Eleven-year-old Cody is a handsome, personable young man who likes to please others and wants most of all to be adopted by a forever family.

Monday's Child: Maria

Monday's Child: Maria

Maria, 15, has a talent for art and hopes to be adopted to a forever home soon.

Monday's Child: Marcia

Monday's Child: Marcia

Marcia just turned 16 and wants to be adopted before she's 17

Monday's Child: Chris

Monday's Child: Chris

Chris, 17, says he plans to enlist in the Army after graduation, and wants a home to come back to if he goes overseas.

Monday's Child: Tevin

Monday's Child: Tevin

Tevin, 16, hopes to be adopted before he enters the adult world all alone.

Monday's Child: Barbara & Crystal

Monday's Child: Barbara & Crystal

For the first time on Monday's Child, a pair of twins up for adoption. Barbara and Crystal are 12 years old and have a lot to bring to a family.

Monday's  Child: Brandon

Monday's Child: Brandon

Brandon is a likeable, good looking young man who is more than ready for a permanent home.

Monday's Child: Carrie

Monday's Child: Carrie

Carrie is a beautiful and outgoing young lady with a lot of interests and a lot of abilities.

Monday's Child: Thomas

Monday's Child: Thomas

Thomas likes to "fix stuff," and would like someone to "fix" his life through adoption.

Monday's Child: A 1991 Adoption

Monday's Child: A 1991 Adoption

To celebrate National Adoption Week, a look back at a successful adoption: 12-year-old 'Freddie' is now 30-year-old Donny, a successful sheriff's officer helping young people like he was. 

Monday's Child: Brandon

Monday's Child: Brandon

Fifteen-year-old Brandon wants to build houses, but right now needs a place to call "home."

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About the Monday's Child program

Monday's Child began on the first Monday of May in 1980 profiling special needs adoptable children in the hope that they might find permanent homes. In the more than one thousand Mondays since -- more than 900 children have been introduced.

In 1980 Mimi Brody of Knoxville's Council on Adoptable Children was about to give up. Two Knoxville television stations had said no to her idea for what she thought would be a unique program. She had seen a news segment in Atlanta where the stories of special children, who had little chance of being adopted, were told. She hoped a television station in Knoxville would do the same thing.

In short order, the idea became "Monday's Child", a regular news segment on the Monday evening newscast. Twenty five years later over 900 children, all of whom were children past the age of a typical adoption or with special needs, had been profiled.

Viewers responded beyond expectations. Over 600 have been adopted. So many children, in fact, that Williams now travels outside the state of Tennessee to find children to profile for the week segment.

"As long as there are children, as long as there are homes, and as long as we are here to bring them together, then I think the program is viable" states Williams

Williams, who retired in December of 2000, will continue doing the Monday's Child segment.

For additional information contact the Tennessee Department of Children's. Services at 1-615-741-6056 or click here to view Tennessee Department of Children's Services web site.