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...actually knows how many babies are adopted in the U.S. each year. The Federal Government stopped keeping track in 1975, though it promises to start counting again by 1991. The best estimate -- from the National Committee for Adoption in Washington -- is that there were more than 60,000 adoptions by * nonrelatives in 1986. The figure would be much higher were it not for a 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...
Though many adopted children went on to live contented, successful lives, others suffered from the start and were slow to heal, a phenomenon largely ignored by the mental-health community. The visceral sense of loss, psychologists suggest, even in the case of infant adoptions, is an abiding , wound, too little understood. Adoptees represent 2% of the U.S. population, yet by some estimates they account for one-quarter of the patients in U.S. psychological treatment facilities. "There are many issues that are particularly critical for adoptive families -- issues of compatibility, intellectual mismatches, personality conflicts," says Ruth McRoy, a University of Texas...
...education teachers, who frequently are the first to realize a young girl is pregnant; contact the school nurse to find out if anyone has morning sickness. Never talk to the principal, who may not want to know about these things." She also suggests that would-be mothers and fathers start haunting skating rinks, rock concerts, used-clothing stores, anywhere they might hear some gossip and make connections...
...manifest themselves. That helps sustain the cowboy myth that nature is a neutral, unchanging backdrop. Moreover, evolution seems to have wired our brains to respond to rapid changes, the snap of a twig or a movement in the alley, and to ignore slow ones. When these consequences do start to show up, we don't notice them. Anyone who has ever been amazed by an old photograph of himself or herself can attest to the merciful ignorance of slow change, that is, aging -- Where did those clothes and that strange haircut come from? Was I really that skinny...
Shevardnadze's new flexibility on Star Wars was in part offset by his warning that the Kremlin would abrogate a future START treaty if the U.S. goes too far with SDI testing. And the Senate would certainly want to review any deal on Star Wars as part of a START ratification process. "The Soviets made a constructive step which may facilitate negotiations," concludes House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Dante Fascell. "But it only puts off the day of reckoning...