Word: infantalizes
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Gilbreania was placed in the home of Doris Jean Bennett, who was called Miss Doris. Her record was spotty. Miss Doris, a homemaker, had seen two children in her care suffer broken bones under questionable circumstances; an infant boy had come to the hospital comatose allegedly after being shaken. (She convinced investigators that the shaking occurred before she got the child.) On June 1999 she took the fatally injured Gilbreania to a hospital, claiming she had slipped and fallen in the bathtub. But doctors examining her discovered injuries so severe that the child's brain had been pushed into...
...years he was in foster care, his family disintegrated. He very rarely sees his birth mother or his brother Frankie. His father is dead. Homer, at 20, is a father himself, of an infant girl, and he says he's worried about keeping his own family together. He hopes to get his GED and maybe even graduate from a community college. But technically, he was a ward of the state until he turned 21 last week, when he was released. With so many bad things behind him, Homer says, there is only one good thing about his long trip through...
...pioneers of TV's first generation, Allen remains the most relevant, one of the half-dozen indispensable people in the medium's history. When he became host of a new late-night broadcast on NBC called the Tonight show in 1953, he was a revolutionary. The infant medium was still feeling its way, adapting the formats of radio and vaudeville and the Broadway stage. Allen, who had honed his skills in local radio and TV, seemed to understand the medium in a new way. He relaxed in front of the camera, gabbed with his announcer and bandleader, ad-libbed easily...
...kiss their moms, but in many jails in which women are awaiting trial and sentencing, contact is forbidden. A pane of thick glass separates the mother and child, which can be yet another trauma. Gail Smith, executive director of Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers, described an infant's wrenching visit. "When he saw his mother come out, his little hand went to the glass," Smith says. "But when he realized he couldn't touch her, he just started screaming...
After childbirth, the treatment is often no better. Most states make no special arrangements for the care of newborns in prison. After delivery, mothers and babies are typically separated--sometimes within hours. The infant is sent to live with a family member or goes straight to foster care. New York, Nebraska and Washington State are exceptions; prisons in these states have nurseries in which infants are allowed to live with their mothers for a year to 18 months. But this raises another difficult question: Is it really better for an infant to be raised in prison, just to be near...