Word: infantalizes
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...politics, on how vital his responsibility is while sidelining the other major political players, such as the constitutionally elected representatives and the Maoists. Yes, we have been swindled by our political parties time and again, but like it or not, our hopes rest with them. Let's give our infant democracy some time to grow. If Japan and Germany could rise up from ashes, literally, so will we someday. Biswas Baral Kathmandu...
...seems odd that an infant is supposed to feed on them, and a grown man is expected at some point to behold them, but for a period in between we feel the need to see to it that no child ever sees a breast. This prudishness seems quintessentially American; Europeans, who have long been more comfortable with the human form than we, are generally amused by the Puritan standards of American entertainment when it comes to nudity. The French, for example, have no trouble with the appearance of topless women, shown routinely in newspapers and advertisements...
...idea of divine providence by showing how current events were history in the making, repeating events from earlier, usually in the Bible. Fueled by this method of seeking precedent for everything, they came to see America as literally a new Israel. Finding moments in America’s infant history that lined up with scriptural prophecy, the Puritans were able to create a narrative in which God himself smiled on their program...
...killing their babies and an estimated 5,000 instances of children removed from their parents' care by family courts, because of concerns over the reliability of expert evidence. Last year, two women jailed for life for murdering their children, both of whom claimed their babies suffered from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, had their convictions overturned. A third woman was also acquitted of murdering her children. All three cases involved evidence from one cot-death expert, and prompted the Court of Appeal to rule that a parent should not be prosecuted for the death of an infant unless all the experts...
Just try to suggest that you find an entirely new home for Milky or Mikey or Button. Your kids will recoil in horror--as if you had proposed abandoning their infant selves on some stranger's doorstep...