"Touche" to Janet for responding to the stereotype of WIC moms! I was a WIC mom in graduate school when I was pregnant with Miranda (1980) and when she was little. I would go to WIC and sit through the nutrition education film strips during the day, and then go to my graduate class in nutrition at the university at night. I remember being treated like a 'leper' at my local grocery store, where I had shopped for five years, the day I first brought in my WIC coupons and used them to buy Kix and orange juice and milk and eggs and cheese. The prejudice against "poor people" JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE POOR was never clearer to me than those days. I gave the first "graduation address" to the first class of WIC peer counsellors in Bryan/College Station and was proud (not ashamed) to say that I had once been helped by the WIC program and was happy to participate in that occasion of the first graduates of the program. Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D. e-mail to [log in to unmask] Associate Professor of Anthropology Texas A&M University Specialist in infant feeding and growth