Word: infantability
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...wives advising them to be modest and industrious. Above all, procreation was a prime function of marriage. Most married women were in "virtually perpetual pregnancy," because effective contraception had not yet been adopted. In childbirth, women faced tremendous constraints that did indeed make them a weaker vessel. A high infant mortality rate resulted from the lack of disinfectant, the limited use of forceps and mishandling by midwives. The midwives lacked medical knowledge because they were not taught Latin, and only a few English-language medical textbooks existed. Many women died in childbirth, and those who survived faced the death...
...looking for acquisitions in the U.S. because that is where the fastest, surest economic growth is now taking place. Last January, Nestlé burnished its public image in the U.S. by settling a 6½-year-old consumer boycott prompted by the company's marketing of infant formula in developing countries...
...just beginning to show, says she is "conditioning" herself not to become too attached to the baby. "It is not my husband's child," she says, "so I don't have the feeling behind it as if it were ours." She does not plan to see the infant after it is born, but, she admits, "I might like to see a picture once in a while...
...Parpalaix's lawyer. The deposited sperm, he argued, - implied a contract. Somewhat to the surprise of legal experts, the court last month agreed, ruling that this "secretion containing the seeds of life" should be given to Parpalaix. "I'll call him Thomas," she said of her prospective infant. "He'll be a pianist. That's what his father wanted...
Research on birth rates shows that along with strengthening planned-parenthood programs, each country has to carry out additional strategies to slow the growth of population and urbanization. If infant and child mortality were reduced and if social security for the elderly were introduced, couples would not feel the need to have many sons with the hope that one or two would survive to care for the parents in their old age. Similarly, literacy, especially for women, would help delay the age of marriage and would also bring greater understanding and acceptance of family-planning methods...