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...anti-abortion activists to stir up emotion. Similarly, she defines a 20-week-old fetus as a “child” based on its childlike physical features. Again, the medical community disagrees, as do those who hold different philosophical and religious beliefs about the definitions of infanthood...
Some overachieving infants (along with their parents) take swimming lessons. Others turn to music-appreciation classes. But today the very hippest babies are relaxing from the trials and tensions of infanthood by taking up the age-old practice of yoga...
Reginald's antics appear strained largely in contrast to the effortlessness which seems to mark Seltzer's characterization of Reginald's rival in love, the more spiritual Archibald. When he glides on stage to declare his affections for Patience, his infanthood sweetheart, Seltzer makes us keenly aware of what most of the other actors have been doing wrong. With a remarkable economy of movement and gesture, he skillfully conveys the fundamental absurdity of Archibald's unhappy narcissism, evoking laughs simply by a raised eyebrow or changed inflection...
...Welfarest State. The Swedish welfare state takes care of its citizens from the womb (prenatal benefits to mothers), to birth (maternity hospitals), to infanthood (home assistants to young mothers), through school (free lunches), to jobs (vocational training), through sickness (next-to-free hospitals), through accidents (invalid insurance), through mental troubles (free psychiatric advice), through old 'age (old-age pensions), to the tomb (funeral benefits), to salvation, if possible (state-paid preachers...
...Three years: This is the mellow age of infanthood. The child is "good company and likes to please." He walks with a destination in mind, is rather sure of himself, asks questions about social requirements ("Is it right?"), feeds himself without spilling, sleeps through the night without bedwetting. He would take full responsibility for the toilet if not for the "awkward posteriority of buttons and buttocks." He holds a crayon in his fingers, names what he draws, copies a circle, matches three color forms. He can run, ride a tricycle, put on his shoes ("not always on the correct foot...
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