I used to really believe that women could be trusted to make the choices that were right for themselves and their babies, and that my role was simply to share information. Then I went to work for the Children's Aid Society (CPS in the U.S.). I saw cases where: -a mother broke her baby's leg because he cried too much -a mother punished her toddler for bad behaviour by with-holding food until the child was so weak she could not stand up and her skin literally hung on her arms -a woman hit her stepdaughter (not yet three) so hard on the back of the head that she killed her because the child didn't do what she was told -a woman left a child in a car in a shopping mall parking lot while she went into the mall to shoplift some things. When she was caught and arrested, she didn't tell the police about the child in the car. It was winter, and in Canada. They found the child the next morning. Well, I could go on. The point is that women make some terrible decisions about what to do with their children and sometimes deliberately harm them. Their motivations are often very complex, and it isn't just about logic. I don't have a solution to this, and I don't have a solution to the WIC/formula issue. It's a real struggle. Teresa Pitman Guelph Ontario *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html