Word: infantability
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...normal evening; two old school chums are getting together after seven years, catching up on each other's news. Alicia (Norma Aleandro) is particularly eager for Ana (Chunchuna Villafañe) to meet Gaby, the five-year-old girl she and her husband adopted when she was an infant. Late that night the two women sit gossiping and getting tiddly on eggnogs when, without at first modulating her tone, Ana explains why she left Argentina so suddenly, without saying goodbye to anyone. It is a tale of midnight abduction, a blow to her head--and waking up naked, tied...
...more likely to have anemia, and 23% more likely to have complications related to prematurity, than mothers aged 20 to 24." All of this adds up to twice the normal risk of delivering a low-birth-weight baby (one that weighs under 5.5 lbs.), a category that puts an infant in danger of serious mental, physical and developmental problems that may require costly and possibly even lifelong medical care...
...Infants that escape the medical hazards of having a teenage mother do not always manage to negotiate the psychological and social perils. Desirée Bell, 19, of New York City, had her first son at age 15 and her second the following year. Her elder son Eddie has a learning disability and was almost autistic as an infant. Bell, who has managed heroically to complete high school and secure a good job with the city, blames herself for his problems. "I hated the fact that I was pregnant," she recalls. "I was resentful of my unborn child. I used...
With disadvantage creating disadvantage, it is no wonder that teen pregnancy is widely viewed as the very hub of the U.S. poverty cycle. "A lot of the so-called feminization of poverty starts off with teenagers' having babies," says Lucile Dismukes of the Council on Maternal and Infant Health in Atlanta, a state advisory group. "So many can't rise above it to go back to school or get job skills...
...arched eyebrows penciled in high above blue-shadowed eye lids, metallic blue fingernails, hair swept up in waves and clasped on one side by a polka-dot barrette. She is 23 years old. On her lap she holds her first child. He is two months old and wears an infant baseball uniform that says "All Pro." The mother's expression is both proud and sad, full of tenderness for this child and yet uncertain of him, or of herself; she has not played this part before. The dimples above the corners of her mouth look like quotation marks around...