Word: infantalizing
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...neighborhood and the newborn's rescuers, meanwhile, have turned the infant into a symbol of life's sweet contingencies -- proof that happy endings can befall the meekest even in the meanest of places. Neighbors are calling him the "miracle baby." Those who found him are marveling at their luck...
...some newspapers," he said. "He wasn't making a peep when I got there." Insardi whipped off his shirt, swaddled the baby in it and rode with the child to the hospital. His own first child, a girl, was born four weeks ago. His strange encounter with the abandoned infant left him so shaken that he brought a receiving blanket knitted by his mother to the hospital...
...does the U.S., which lavishes nearly $300 billion annually on its military machine, fail to provide the relatively piddling sums needed to care for poor expectant mothers and their children? That question arises whenever new data appear about America's disgraceful infant-mortality rate. The short answer is that the question is based on the false assumption that squeezing the Pentagon will mean more funds for better prenatal care. In fact, the Administration plans to trim defense spending by $44 billion over the next five years. The savings will trickle into the S&L bailout and other fiscal black holes...
...raise education standards meet local opposition because they would be expensive and inconvenient. When the Pentagon tries to save billions by closing obsolete bases, hawks and doves fight to preserve them. Last year Americans spent $5 billion at movie box offices. A fraction of that sum could dramatically reduce infant mortality. It is all a matter of priorities...
...poverty-racked mountains of McDowell County (pop. 35,233), the arrival of a baby is taken as a sign that life is getting better. The hope persists, although the county has one of West Virginia's highest rates of infant mortality: 13.5 per 1,000 births, one-third above the national average. "It's always been a problem," says Franki Patton, director of Tug River Clinic's maternal and infant health program. "But I think the community has gotten used to it. They don't want to lose their babies, but they see it as a part of life...