">Most of those traumatized, institutionalized kids [Romanian orphans] deteriorate mentally and physically pretty fast. After three years, eighty percent of those who haven't died are sent off to mental hospitals for the rest of their lives, which might have been Monica's prognosis. But in all these situations, you notice that there are always one or two children who get 'adopted' by a member of the staff. Because those kids are in a special relationship, they get more input and do the best.<"
"The innate program to smile is so strong that even after a year of almost no socializing or playing, the Romanian orphans indulged with the least encouragement, says Stern, >as if they'd been hanging around waiting for a stimulus.< Although nature gives all babies this genetic weapon with which to disarm adults, Monica's well-modulated model is double-barreled: not only contagious but selective. Unlike many >affectively promiscuous< orphans and other emotionally starved children, Monica doesn't beam desperately at just anyone."
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