Word: caring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...satisfied again with the spectacle of nature and living close to it, with homemade entertainments and being with one another doing good work on good land? Ed Sidey thinks they can, if there is just enough money to keep people apace of the world in education and health care, if the economic base is adequate to support quality churches, parks and streets. The fundamental values still celebrated along Greenfield's streets are as sound as ever, their loss in cities the cause of human devastation, something acknowledged now by most experts...
...great and tragic irony: while adoptive parents will literally go to the ends of the earth to find healthy white, or perhaps Asian, infants, thousands of other American youngsters who are older or black or handicapped go begging for homes. In 1986 the nation's foster-care system harbored at least 36,000 of these adoptable "special-needs" children. Some 13,500 found families. That same year more than 9,000 couples and singles adopted children from overseas. Another 25,000 pursued and found that most hotly sought commodity in the adoption marketplace: healthy white American babies...
...long, black-tinted-glass, air-conditioned limos are unfashionable because we know that real men don't need air conditioning. We can pretend that we believe it is wrong to loot the earth for the benefit of a single generation of a single species. We can pretend to care about our children's world...
...need is love, John Lennon promised. Sometimes that's true. Then again, there are the children like Mickey who need more. They may need hospital care because their mothers used crack during pregnancy. They may need psychiatric treatment to deal with the effects of sexual abuse. They may need wheelchairs, costly medication, special classes. And without a doubt, they will need a home...
...conference was held at the K-Schoolbecause, "Mental health care is a concern ofgovernment because it is a big investment of thepublic. This is one of the few schools ofgovernment that anyone is talking about mentalhealth," Dorwart said...