Word: infantalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surveyed favor having more of their tax dollars go to programs that benefit the young. For the most part, that sentiment has proved beneficial. Since Edelman launched the Children's Defense Fund in 1973, American children are doing better in such areas as math and science proficiency, immunizations and infant survival rates, thanks in part to government action...
Police initially believed the tragedy grew out of a theft. Under questioning, the boys tearfully admitted entering the Bermudez family's apartment to steal a Big Wheel-style tricycle. While searching for the toy, they discovered the infant and, for no apparent reason, beat him hard enough to fracture his skull and cause severe internal bleeding. Then they dropped him on the bed and fled with the tricycle. Maria Bermudez, who was babysitting her step-brother, discovered his bruised and limp body when she came out of the bathroom...
...anything so vicious. "This is what hurts me the most. They don't have an explanation,'' says the baby's father Ignacio. "What can you say about a child who is barely 30 days old? He can't do any harm to anyone." At week's end the battered infant was on life support in critical condition, his prognosis uncertain. His accused attackers were arraigned in juvenile court on charges of burglary; the six-year-old was also charged with attempted murder. He may be the youngest person in the U.S. to be so accused. The judicial system...
...this type of regression contains one immense surprise: the resulting child-adult turns out to be not the radiant and innocent child Jean-Jacques Rousseau imagined but rather a hard, half-blind, furiously offended, rancorous, enraged infant capable of any atrocity. As the late Austrian child psychoanalyst Melanie Klein noted, the thwarted infant feels a desire to tear up everything, wipe out both parents...
...molded and shaped by the environment to which it is exposed from birth to death. I can just imagine the hard drive of my office computer coming to life after working hours and carrying on conversations and relationships with the other computers. Should I be prepared for an infant computer beeping gleefully beside its mother some morning? This reminds me of the fantasy stories I used to tell my daughter about how her dolls came to life and had fun after the lights went out at night. I daresay the lights were out when this article was written. PAMELA HENDERSON...