Word: infantalizing
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...dual-income families mean that many boomer parents are not only richer but also ready to spend lavishly on their little darlings. The same people who casually shell out $800 for a Bugaboo stroller don't flinch at a $300 Little Marc cashmere sweater. As a result, sales of infant and toddler clothing have soared. In 2006 they spiked to $33.3 billion, 8.4% over the previous year--outpacing the adult-apparel market--according to the NPD Group, a market-research firm based in Port Washington, N.Y. And for 2007, sales are expected to increase to $44 billion...
...also showed that the number of minutes that males spent grooming hinged on the number of females available at the time: The better a male's odds of getting lucky, the less nit-picking time the females received. Though primates have been observed trading grooming for food sharing or infant care, this is the first time this kind of exchange has been observed between male and female primates in a sexual context, says lead researcher Michael Gumert of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, demonstrating that the amount of time a male macaque "will invest in [its] partner" depends largely...
...subcontinent, a democratic entity divested of India's terrible legacy of caste entitlement. Little more than a year after Mohammed Ali Jinnah signed the document declaring Pakistan a sovereign state, the erudite, Savile Row-suited father of the nation died of lung cancer and tuberculosis, leaving the infant democracy bereft of his enlightened guidance. With him died the charismatic leadership that his new nation, divided into West and East Pakistan (later Bangladesh), desperately needed in order to grow as a modern state. In a sense, Pakistan has been searching for its parents ever since...
Those informal agreements are paving the way for official policies, particularly as more women move into protocol-setting positions. While working as the executive director of her state?s trial lawyer?s association earlier in her career, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius took her two infant sons to the office and has been an advocate for workplace parenting ever since. Today, 21 state agencies in Kansas allow parenting in the office. "We live in a society where too many people make workers choose--do you want to be a good parent, or do you want to be a good worker?" says...
...which evaluated just over 45,000 single-child live births from 1959 to 1966, were able to adjust for an impressive array of confounding variables, including race, age, weight, height, marital status, occupation, the number of prenatal visits, the number of previous children, smoking and drinking habits, drug habits, infant gender and both parents' education levels...