81.   Ms. Bluestone said she was worried that families who chose to sign up under the new rules would overwhelmingly be those with very sick children who require frequent hospitalizations.

82.   No parent should be forced to choose between job security and being at home with a sick child.

83.   On that day a woman was crying in front of the mosque with a sick child in her arms.

84.   Once a woman traveling with a sick child called her hotel from a connecting airport, Becker recalled.

85.   One mother, Floride Makarendendo, stood in the rain waiting for her sick child to be treated.

86.   Organizations that subsidize emergency care programs for sick children found their worker absentee rate declined.

87.   One couple said they were rushing a sick child to a Boston hospital when they were ticketed.

88.   Overwhelmingly, families with sick children favor research that can lead to cures, even if it involves embryonic stem cells.

89.   Parents may not bring sick children to the centers.

90.   Parents who need to be planting and tending new crops are instead at home ill, or caring for sick children.