BABY TRADE

The idea of rich, white Americans going to an impoverished Third World country and adopting brown babies from desperate mothers turned my stomach. But when John Lipps, the “father” of one of the Honduran babies, commented on her Indian looks and color with alarm, then said, “I’m not prejudiced . . . ,” it became too evident that these couples have little if any respect for the country or the people, let alone the families of origin. A baby, any baby will do, but it can’t be too brown, too Indian-looking, too disabled.

MARY MILLER

Sylmar