Babies
The front page of the Sunday NYT has a picture of a baby in a freshly dug grave. Poor medical care is taking its toll on mother and infant in Africa.
Here in the U.S., it’s the same old story – kids in the system with biological parents who won’t release them to families, agencies charging $26,000 to just match with a potential infant, and then there is the whole pay as you go until the mother changes her mind at the last minute phenomenon.
All of these don’t and do make sense.
Wouldn’t it make sense if there was one organization designed to give better medical care to the poor women in third world countries (deploy doctors and nurses strategically), one system designed to put babies and children in the homes of parents who are capable and want to parent (around the globe), and a system that puts the money into the resources that make this happen?
Polly Anna indeed.