Word: infantalizing
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Less spectacular, perhaps, was the discovery of a galaxy in the act of being born, a celestial infant long sought by astronomers. The one they finally found, called 3C 326.1, is exceedingly faint; it has been known for about 30 years, but only as an unseen source of radio waves...
Gardner replies that the state can solve both the employment and infant-care problems by putting welfare mothers to work in day-care centers, which are expected to grow through state subsidies from an $8 million-a-year business to $116 million a year. FIP, he says, "won't cost more than the current welfare program, and it won't save money either. But it will save lives and self- esteem, careers and families...
...anyone but the central figures, and perhaps for them as well, mixed emotions are the only kind that seem fitting to bring to the New Jersey courtroom where a landmark case involving custody of a 9 1/2-month-old infant is being heard. Mary Beth Whitehead thought she knew herself in 1985, when she contracted, as a surrogate mother, to bear a child for William and Elizabeth Stern. But her certainties crumbled when she gave birth last March to the girl she calls Sara, the Sterns call Melissa and court papers call Baby M. In hours of emotional testimony last week, Whitehead...
...After she met the Sterns for the first time at a New Jersey restaurant, the three became friends, trading phone calls back and forth. Whitehead signed a contract, promising among other things that she would not "form or attempt to form a parent-child relationship" with the resulting infant. The Sterns promised to pay her $10,000, plus medical expenses. They paid the center $10,000. But during delivery, Whitehead told the court last week, she decided she could not go through with it. "Something took over," she said. "I think it was just being a mother...
...welfare. So did Sybil. She was 17 when she met Jeffrey. "I was introduced to so many things through him," she recalls, "like liquor and drugs and stuff." Today she lives with her mother in a suburb of Chicago and supports her two-year-old twins and an infant on a monthly welfare check. She no longer sees Jeffrey, an unemployed dropout. "I didn't love him," she says. "Why did I go with him?" she asks...