babyliftとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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babylift (複数形 babylifts)

1. The evacuation of foreign children from abroad into a country for adoption.
   • 1978, Elwyn James Anthony, Colette Chiland, Children and their parents in a changing world, page 112:

     The second prong of my effort, Plan B, was to try to provide some help for the 2000 babylift children we had already brought to America.

   • 1978, Gerald G. Hotchiss, Psychology Today, page 30:

     There are ominous implications for babylift children in the story of Leigh Marsh, an adopted Korean child who lost eight years in the Connecticut public school system.

   • 1995, Newsweek - Volume 125, page 802:

     Over the next few weeks, on the Pan Am 747s and on military flights that followed, about 1,400 orphans rode the babylift to America.

   • 2001, Danny Schechter, News Dissector: Passions, Pieces, and Polemics, page 108:

     They believe there was collusion between Lockheed and its friends in the Air Force to use the babylift to give the C-5 publicity.

   • 2010, Cheri Register, Are Those Kids Yours?: American Families With Children Adopted From Other Countries, →ISBN:

     Holt speeded up its efforts when the end of the war became imminent but kept a distance from the babylift by refusing an offer to use military transport planes.