Aren’t there plenty of babies suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome or other disabilities stemming from their mother’s drug abuse during pregnancy who go unadopted here?
Because these are the babies who would be born if the women participating in this program had children.
It turns out the crack babies everyone was convinced were doomed to a horrible life were not nearly as badly damaged as we all thought.
http://discovermagazine.com/2006/dec/crack-baby-unfounded-stigma
Fetal alcohol syndrome, OTOH, causes horrible and permanent damage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_syndrome