The AAP is pontificating again.
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To quote Bender:
"Have you ever tried just turning off the TV; sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
"Have you ever tried just turning off the TV; sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Isn't AAP just one of those organizations that rely heavily on the beneficence of the pharmaceutical companies.....as in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?
I am not sure. I have noticed this story is getting picked up by a lot of outlets.
Ars Technica is running it for crying out loud.
Mike
If this outfit is tax exempt, which seems likely, then their information should be public and online. Good chance their donors are listed. It might be on a government database that's online or a separate service might have them along with many other groups with similar tax status. I would look for it but am at work.
AAP is 501c3 tax exempt Here is some info about donors
http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/corp_funding.html
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS
"Friends of Children Fund" Annual Report, July 1, 1996 - June 30, 1997, indicates $2.085 million in funding from corporations. Donors include Procter & Gamble, Gerber, Infant Formula Council, McNeil Consumer Products Company, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products, Abbott Laboratories, Wyeth-Lederle Vaccine & Pediatrics, Mead Johnson Nutritionals, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Schering Corp., Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Food Marketing Institute, Sugar Association, International Food Information Council, Merck Vaccine Division, and others. Also gets foundation support (RWJ, Pew, etc.).
Formula manufacturers "donate $1 million annually to the American Academy of Pediatrics in the form of a renewable grant that has already netted the AAP $8 million. The formula industry also contributed at least $3 million toward the building costs of the AAP headquarters." (Mothering magazine, July-August, p.60; refers to a book Milk, Money and Madness by Naomi Baumslag and Dia L. Michels (Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Garvey, 1995, p. 172))
According to a New York Times article, the Ross Products Unit of Abbott Laboratories, the makers of Similac infant formula, purchased 300,000 copies of the AAP's "New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding" with Ross' logo and name on them. In addition, "Ross, McNeil and Johnson & Johnson were the top three corporate supporters of the academy's $65 million operating budget...each giving $500,000 or more." (NY Times, 9/18/02, C1)
http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/corp_funding.html
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS
"Friends of Children Fund" Annual Report, July 1, 1996 - June 30, 1997, indicates $2.085 million in funding from corporations. Donors include Procter & Gamble, Gerber, Infant Formula Council, McNeil Consumer Products Company, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products, Abbott Laboratories, Wyeth-Lederle Vaccine & Pediatrics, Mead Johnson Nutritionals, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Schering Corp., Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Food Marketing Institute, Sugar Association, International Food Information Council, Merck Vaccine Division, and others. Also gets foundation support (RWJ, Pew, etc.).
Formula manufacturers "donate $1 million annually to the American Academy of Pediatrics in the form of a renewable grant that has already netted the AAP $8 million. The formula industry also contributed at least $3 million toward the building costs of the AAP headquarters." (Mothering magazine, July-August, p.60; refers to a book Milk, Money and Madness by Naomi Baumslag and Dia L. Michels (Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Garvey, 1995, p. 172))
According to a New York Times article, the Ross Products Unit of Abbott Laboratories, the makers of Similac infant formula, purchased 300,000 copies of the AAP's "New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding" with Ross' logo and name on them. In addition, "Ross, McNeil and Johnson & Johnson were the top three corporate supporters of the academy's $65 million operating budget...each giving $500,000 or more." (NY Times, 9/18/02, C1)
Well I searched the article for 'hitting' , and getting no result, I searched for 'bender' and got no result.
So then I thought,,, is this a quote from the tv show 'futurama' ???? I'm guessing so....
Now my brain is too tired to figure out what that has to do with anything...
Thank you, Sofarsogood. That info was to be expected, and their more recent financial and tax reports (no tax paid) indicates that they're doing fantastic. It appears to be a "growth industry"!
They all use the line but this group AAP is staffed with people whose motto is 'it's all about the children' line. (not saying they don't do some good - but their social policies are the same as Robert Wood Johnson Fdn, et al., CDC and oddly Planned Parenthood)
Two of the people I successfully encouraged to switch are fathers and have commented that the thing they are enjoying most about switching is the extra money they have to spend on their kids. If a billion people switched the benefit to kids would be enormous.
Yup. Just trying to lighten the mood.
While also stating that PARENTS are responsible for raising their children, not government/groups.
This whole over-babying of children is not helping them. They need to be turned over someone's knee.
Sorry, didn't mean to de-rail (need a train crash smiley)
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