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episode dtsrfcs which Ted, the anchor run, tad Ms wife,
Georgette, the ztl puss, have their b&by. Angel Puss
goes into kbor while they Ye having dinner at Mary's.,
There's not time to get her to the hospital so she has the
kid in lorry's bedroom after which the doctor and ambd
ance arrive so that mother and child may be shipped to
the hospital. "
Why? There's no medical reason that 99 out of 100
b&bies have to be born in a hospital. Given the free and
easy way that drugs, anesthetics and overpowered equip
ment is used in the maternity wards, the most that's
accomplished by having a baby in the hoq?iid is to
increase the risk of subliminal, hsrd-to4etect brain dam
age. . .
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But there are economic reasons, having nothing to do
with the baby's welfare, for making it practically imposs
ible to have a kid at home.
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From birth onward, the family is reduced, ignored,
minimized and damaged. Law, public policy, the health
insurance giants combine to see ihat an American child's
first days of life are spent in an impersonal environment
among strangers. - -
Next, kiddo, comes the day-care center because granny
has been carted off to a senior citizen's center. Early dis
orientation and depersonalization is useful preparation for
busing to school. Whether or not this procedure aids
learning or promotes interracial respect and amity, it
should manufacture a person without any loyalty, tradi
tion or sense of community, a humanoid who ought to
make an ideal employe.
We've been wounded by the process which has turned
the homes of America into orphan asylums and. parents
into domestic bureaucrats. : -.
Many of us go about paying money to jack-leg shrinks
and evangelist therapists so that we may "get back in
touch" with our rnisfHad selves. But there are also many
millions who $tl have a strong center and who refuse,
to the irritation of thdr employers, overtime so they can
Jimmy Carter has been campaigning on the promise
that hell do something for our families. Maybe that's just
more glib politician talk. Certainly he has yet to indicate
he realizes tht family health and the abmitions and prac
tices of our kigest and most powerful institutions are
antagonistic Overtime is a good example oflhe opposing '
interests. . .
Members detached . ' -
What gets priority ia our society? The use of human
beings to fit organizational needs, ix. mandatory over
time, or families? In a million ways we've elected to go
the overtime route and to build yet more large organiza
tions staffed with more and more varieties cf newly in
vented professions to perform the services families once
did. -
Instead of having a system of family allowances we've
chosen to build 'liousing for the elderly" and equip it
with physiotherapists, social workers, recreation directors,
nutrition advisers, gsrontoiogists and thanatobgists.
The .same set-up is rapMly being created for our child
ren. Day-cars centers are obvious, but stop and think
about school breakfast and lunch programs. The decision
was mads not to use public money and resources to help
families continue to perform these functions but to turn
two-thirds of the feeding of millions of children over to
professionals.
By any standard of judgment the paid help does a
poorer job at a higher cost. "
Ford isal interested and Carter will find out that there
is no way the Department of Health, Education and Wel
fare can be reorganized to do the job responsfvery," to
use the vogue word.
The mixed partnership of government and private-sector
enterprise works no better as shown by the recurrent
hospital and nursing home scandals. Wherever govern
ment has contracted out to have any of these services per
formed the most we've gstten is an absence of outright
provable theft, and mediocre quality. That's the best.
It is far, far cheaper to have some sort of direct family
grant-FHA program to build a mothsr4n4aw apartment ia
the rear than to pour it away for housing for the elderly.
The family is the cheapest and the best administrative
unit, so let's keep Georgette's kid out of the day-care
center. - .
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