How would you feel if you had been the baby??

January 7, 2011

Wow. I got nauseous when I read this.

[url=http://abcnews.go.com/Health/practice-babies-cornell-unveils-dark-history-adoption-world/story?id=12548705]'Practice Babies': Cornell Unveils Dark History of Adoption World - ABC News[/url]

me-n-u

January 7, 2011

Horrid :mad:

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CRAZY_WOMAN

January 7, 2011

Those poor babies probably lacked bonding skills.

caths1964

January 7, 2011

kdecrow

Wow. I got nauseous when I read this.

[url=http://abcnews.go.com/Health/practice-babies-cornell-unveils-dark-history-adoption-world/story?id=12548705]'Practice Babies': Cornell Unveils Dark History of Adoption World - ABC News[/url]

You wonder what they were thinking, don't you.

Having said that, I was probably in hospital for the first few months of my life (slight medical problem) and was probably handled by lots of nurses and was then in a foster home until age of 3 months. I have no idea if that has had any effect - I'm certainly not a very tactile person.

jcm

January 7, 2011

Wow. I cannot even begin to imagine what effect that had on a developing brain. To never be able to count on who was going to put you down for a nap...and then to be woken up by someone new. There is no way that didn't have a profound impact on each of those children.

And to find out from an aunt on her death bed? How horrifying. :(

mymotherssacrifice

January 9, 2011

This is such a crazy story and so sad that "educated" people thought this was a good idea. This was around the same time when my birth mother was living in a crib, with brief human contact twice a day at her institution for disabled people. People had very different views then, but it is a very creepy story and so sad that these orphans were not tracked to see how this affected them.