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Eight of the nation's 13 largest health-care systems are Catholic, according to Catholics for a Free Choice, an advocacy group critical of the church's stance on reproductive issues. There were some 120 mergers between Catholic and non-Catholic institutions from 1994 to 1998, and CFFC estimates that reproductive health care was reduced or eliminated in half those cases...
...just who are these caregivers? Catholic health services have historically reached out to underserved communities, aggressively promoting immunization programs and sometimes even building low-income housing, considered fundamental to good health. Ten percent of the nation's 4,800 hospitals (not including long-term and specialty-care centers) are Catholic, according to the American Hospital Association. They enjoy a nonprofit tax status, a financial advantage that some critics feel is unfair in the highly competitive health-care market...
...sorts for a fledgling movement. A year ago, a judge removed April's daughter Alana from the Divilbiss-Littrell home. The judge was acting on a petition from Alana's paternal grandmother arguing that the threesome's relationship revealed such "depravity" that it could "endanger the morals or health" of the little girl, a sunshiney four-year-old who prizes her Barbies. The grandmother took action after seeing the three discuss their lifestyle on an MTV program, Sex in the '90s: It's a Group Thing...
Having read the full study, though, I can report that the news is not all that bad. To be sure, the researchers--sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development--studied 1,300 children from birth to age three, in every child-rearing situation, and concluded that the mother-child relationship often takes a hit when babies are cared for by someone other than Mom. But it's important to note that this concern relates mainly to the child's first year, and especially the first four months. Placing babies in child care during this period...
...Youth Coalition and Hands Are Not for Hitting, as well as gay-straight alliances. One friend is starting a program to help needy children, and another volunteers as a translator at a low-income medical clinic. Last summer I spent eight weeks in Latin America as a public health worker. Yes, a lot of teenagers do use drugs, need antidepressants and flunk out of school. But what about the rest of us? Why not pay attention to the simple, progressive things teenagers are doing? Have a little faith in the up-and-coming generation. ERIKA LINDEN Capitola, Calif...