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...Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, finds the practice appalling. The ultrasound machine, which builds images by bouncing sound waves off the baby, is not known to be hazardous, but its sale or promotion is approved by the FDA only for medical purposes. It may turn out that there are ill effects associated with the procedure that haven't yet been discovered. "Using it for entertainment is an abuse of the technology," says Platt. Besides, he says, he's happy to give patients footage of their babies when they ask. And if an ultrasound is deemed appropriate, insurance will usually cover...
...residence and care--in order to qualify for services. This often involves removal from the home, either to a facility or to the custody of a trained foster family where the child receives intensive care somewhere in the community. Child advocates estimate that 1 in 5 families with mentally ill children in the U.S. has surrendered custody in exchange for treatment of a child with bipolar or some other disorder, including ADHD, schizophrenia or depression...
...many state foster-care systems add the insult of making no distinction between children who have been given up in order to qualify for mental-health care and those who have been removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect. Some systems may even require parents of emotionally ill kids to declare that they are neglecting or abandoning their child--an admission that may get them listed in a state registry, available for background checks to potential employers...
Still, say advocates, these measures do little to address the reason that the custody problems arose in the first place: a persistent misunderstanding of mental illness, particularly as it affects children. A 2000 survey by the National Mental Health Association found that 71% of those polled thought mental illness is caused by emotional weakness. The belief that emotionally ill kids are just misbehaving is perhaps even more widely held. Says Darcy Gruttadaro, director of the child and adolescent action center at the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill: "Despite scientific advances in our understanding, it hasn't translated into...
...competitive advantage it once had by way of a cheap labor force. Minimum wages in Indonesia have grown rapidly?in Jakarta, by nearly 40% this year alone?and now are higher than in more developed Thailand, relative to each country's per capita income. Unions are now pushing for ill-conceived labor laws that call for employers to pay workers whenever they go on strike?effectively forcing manufacturers to underwrite crippling work stoppages at their own factories...