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...been slow to change, according to UNICEF's "State of the World's Children" report released last month. About 49% of South Asian women in their early 20s were married before the age of 18, according to statistics gathered by UNICEF, which links early marriage to high rates of infant death and maternal mortality in very poor countries. "Often families marry off girls very young because they want to protect them, not realizing the dangers they face," says Stella Schumacher, a UNICEF child-protection specialist in New York. "It requires a change of social norms. Legislation is not enough." (Read...
...Born in 1958, Steele was adopted as an infant and raised on Andrews Air Force Base...
...year-old head nurse, Masoumeh Bozorgnejad, points to what's called a vital horoscope--a record of all births, deaths, diseases, contraceptive methods and infant- and mother-mortality rates of the 3,335 people this station covers. "I know every single one of them by name," says Bozorgnejad with a proud smile and adds, "If a mother doesn't show up with her newborn for a scheduled vaccination, we ring her up. And if she can't come for whatever reason, we go pick the baby up ourselves...
...either the breast milk or formula they are fed after birth. Earlier studies have shown that about 1% of a baby's total third-trimester fatty-acid intake comes from omega-3s, but by comparison, only about 0.2% to 0.35% of the total fatty acids in breast milk and infant formulas come from omega-3s. So, it makes sense that supplementing preemies' diets with omega-3 fatty acids, the same brain-boosting oils found in deep-ocean fish such as tuna and salmon, would improve their scores on cognitive tests...
Even as our economy worsened, many Americans consoled themselves with the belief that at least we were better off than people in other rich nations. No more. When you compare the U.S. with Canada, Western Europe and Japan, the news is sobering. Our child-poverty and infant-mortality rates are the highest, our life expectancy is the lowest, our budget deficit as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) is the highest, and our 15-year-olds rank among the lowest on tests of math and science...