by Joyce Slaton posted in Products & Prizes

If you're like most BabyCenter parents who use disposable diapers, you'll spend about $72 a month on them. No big deal to a family with disposable income. Others sometimes face a starker choice: Diapers or food"
This may come as news to those lucky enough not to need them, but the Food Stamp Program and WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children) do not cover the cost of diapers. That leaves some families making desperate choices.
If you talk to social service agencies about the issue, they have terrible stories to tell. Parents who leave their children in the same diaper for a whole day -- or longer. Children wrapped in T-shirts or bandannas or adult underwear for diapers; parents who just empty out the #2 from a diaper and put it right back on; parents who won't let their babies drink or breastfeed so they won't make more wet diapers. Courtesy Help a Mother Out
The list of complications that can arise when babies wear dirty diapers is long and fearsome, ranging from irritations to infections like impetigo. It's #17 here. Take a look. Untreated impetigo can turn into skin ulcers, spread to every member of the family, damage kidneys.
Not only that, a lack of diapers can affect a family's income. Most daycare centers won't accept children without a daily supply of disposable diapers, which leaves many low-income parents unable to work or go to school. Or have anything like a normal social ...