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These women would have been horrified to learn that we now let our children carry their own waste, smeared on their skin, covered by sacks of cloth or paper...

Malcom Gladwell's article points out that good ol Yankee technology is making our kids the most hygenic.

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I like the way they call it an "insult"... hmmm, I've seen some diedees that were VERY "insulting", come to think of it!!

I'm the natural earth mommy type, and I really, REALLY tried to use cloth diapers - but when my daughter got a skin rash, the doctor had me switch to paper (polymer? ceramic? space-age non-colloidal material?) diapers, I was flabbergasted by the beauty. Between them and the diaper genie, I am in love with baby technology.

I did find out that "paper" diapers won't burn in the burn-barrel, though... they are the trash that will not die. Ever.