Word: infantalizing
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Each time Lisa Jones arrived at an East Baltimore, Maryland, health clinic for a pregnancy checkup last year, the 19-year-old was given a yellow voucher worth $10. After 10 visits, in which she improved her diet and learned how to care for an infant, she gave birth to a healthy baby daughter. "There are a lot of girls out there who are naive," Jones says. "The vouchers are a good way to get them to come...
...year-old woman died of natural causes but in agony nonetheless. She had suffered from arthritis, osteoporosis and malnutrition; her teeth were rotten; and an improperly set broken leg had led to a huge bone abscess. The infant, probably a girl, was malnourished too. Her last weeks had been marked by spinal meningitis and a brain inflammation. The man had been sedentary and overweight; his death at around 50 was sudden, perhaps from a heart attack...
...Nine out of every 1,000 U.S. babies die before their first birthday -- one of the highest infant-mortality rates in the industrialized world...
...make an infant omelet...
Cases like Hoyt's and Tinning's, as well as the increasing awareness of child abuse in the U.S., have led law-enforcement and medical authorities to call for a more aggressive approach to investigating infant deaths. Most states now require an autopsy for all babies who die unexpectedly. Before a diagnosis of SIDS can be made, an examination of the scene of death and a review of the child's medical history are made. SIDS experts are calling for standardized protocols to guide such investigations...