Word: infantability
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...attitudes die hard in a society that has been a bastion of male chauvinism for 22 centuries. Until a few decades ago, the drowning of infant girls was tolerated in poor rural areas as an economic necessity. A girl was just another mouth to feed, another dowry to pay, a temporary family member who would eventually leave to serve her husband's kin. A boy, on the other hand, meant more muscle for the farm work, someone to care for aged parents and burn offerings to ancestors...
...case in New Jersey in 1987. In that decision Mary Beth Whitehead was denied custody of the child she contracted to bear, but she was later granted visitation rights. Whitehead had been impregnated through artificial insemination by the husband of the couple who hired her and therefore was the infant's genetic mother...
Johnson engaged in "nurturing, feeding and protecting" the Calverts' child and in that way was much like a foster parent, said Judge Parslow. But, he continued, she was still a "genetic stranger" to the infant and therefore had no legal right to claim parenthood...
...exceptions to the new truth-in-packaging program remain meat, poultry and egg products, which are regulated by the Department of Agriculture. Restaurant food, prepared dishes sold in supermarkets or delicatessens, infant formula and a few other items, most of them with little or no nutritive value, are likewise exempt...
...Security to defray the costs of child care. "I'm the mother, the grandmother, the granddaddy, the daddy. I'm it all," she says. Peggy Plante, 49, understands that frustration well. Plante quit her job in a Braintree, Mass., real estate office in 1988 to care for a sickly infant granddaughter born to two teenage, drug-abusing parents. "We give up everything," Plante says, "and nobody looks out after...