A FOX station in North Carolina has opted out of airing the controversial special "Who's Your Daddy?" Monday (Jan. 3), saying it doesn't meet the standards of its community.

WRAZ-TV, the FOX affiliate in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., the country's 29th-largest TV market, will air a 90-minute documentary on adoption in place of "Who's Your Daddy?," in which a woman tries to discern which of eight men claiming to be her biological father is telling the truth. A $100,000 prize rides on her guess.

Tommy Schenck, general manager of WRAZ, writes on the station's web site that the network provided an advance copy of the special, which he says "is well produced and does progress to a seemingly positive and emotional conclusion."

"However, the basic premise of finding a birth parent on a TV game show, with money at stake, does not in my opinion reflect prevailing standards of good taste for our local community," Schenck writes. "Adoption is a complicated, serious and very private matter, and our local community clearly doesn't view it as a game."

"Who's Your Daddy?" has prompted strong criticism from adoption advocates who say the show trivializes the experiences of adopted children. At the end of the show, the woman will choose the man she believes to be her birth father. If she guesses right, she wins $100,000; if she's wrong, the man she picks will get the cash. Either way, the network says, a father-daughter reunion will take place.

FOX has responded that despite the head-turning title, the show isn't intended to offend anyone. The network says "Who's Your Daddy?" went through the standards-and-practices process to ensure it was appropriate to air, but it respects the rights of affiliates to pre-empt programming they find objectionable.

Thus far, WRAZ is the only FOX affiliate to drop the special. In its place, it will air a documentary called "I Have Roots and Branches ... Personal Reflections on Adoption."