Word: neglected
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...wouldn't elaborate. Florida has other laws that could apply, including neglect or refusal to aid peace officers, a misdemeanor...
Among the most visible victims are black and other minority children born into crack-plagued ghettos. It is bad enough that the drug assaults children in the womb, but the injury is too often compounded after birth by an environment of neglect, poverty and violence. "I sometimes believe that babies are better protected before they are born than they are after," says Dr. Barry Zuckerman, head of the division of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Boston City Hospital...
Confronted by such tragic chapters in the saga of crack, Americans tend to focus on questions of state intervention: At what point should authorities act to remove a child from the home of drug-abusing parents? At birth? When there is clear evidence of abuse or neglect? How about before birth? -- the position of a growing number of people calling for mandatory birth control for female addicts. For Daniel Scott, intervention never came...
...Women and Infants Clinic program at Boston City Hospital, for instance, takes this approach to helping addicted mothers. Women in the program must submit to random urine tests each week, and they are told that two unexplained absences in a row will trigger an immediate investigation for child neglect...
...first lecture, on "Aversive Thinking," is discursive, provocative and nearly impossible to synthesize. This is no doubt part of Cavell's plan, since this lecture concerns the conditions for a conversation about (and with) Emerson's texts. In his efforts to retrieve Emerson from the longtime neglect of professional philosophy, Cavell locates him in the center of a dialogue involving Nietzsche (whom Emerson influenced profoundly) and Heidegger (influenced, in turn, by Nietzsche...