Word: infantalizing
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...great advantage of this system is that it makes a lot of smoke while it does absolutely nothing to help correct the systemic rot. Nothing keeps hospitals from being walk-in clinics. Nothing reverses our increasing infant mortality rate. And most important, nothing cuts the skyrocketing insurance costs...
...people are living longer and longer, sustained by billions of dollars in drugs and billions more in ludicrous life-prolonging surgery. But our inner city hospitals are collapsing. Our infant mortality rate is shocking (the highest in the industrialized world). We are witnessing a revival of epidemics--not just AIDS, but measles, whooping cough and tuberculosis, diseases we thought were defeated, broken by the onward march of civilization...
...addition, the Ohio plan includes an aggressive prenatal program. If an expectant mother goes to her prenatal visits she gets free merchandise from a department store. The plan increase birth weights, reduces premie costs and lowers infant mortality. It is the best of public/private partnerships imaginable, and it works because the administrators and the business community want...
Though few adopting parents would admit it, race can be another important factor. Most couples who decide to seek an infant overseas have concluded it isn't important -- or possible -- to find a child who looks just like themselves, but most experts acknowledge that the rush of bidders in Romania last year was largely explained by the fact that the children were Caucasian. Some aspiring parents, seeking to adopt in Latin America, prefer to go to Chile rather than, say, Peru or Colombia, because they consider Chilean children more likely to be light skinned and Caucasian-looking...
...international traffic in children for adoption remains a big business. Every year, unscrupulous baby brokers in Asia, Latin America and now Eastern Europe hand over hundreds of children to North American and West European parents willing to pay large sums for a healthy child -- and ignore evidence that the infant was obtained illegally. In Peru, the traffic is so open that some mothers have been known to stop foreigners in the street and ask if they are interested in adopting a baby...