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...photo is at once sad and gruesome, but Janet Ramirez treasures it. Dressed in a white hospital gown, an IV hooked up to her arm, the mother clasps her newborn baby, Maria Guadalupe. Only if you look closely can you see that the baby's face is a death mask; a white cap discreetly covers the gaping hole in the back of her skull...
...kinder cut? Research shows that baby boys do feel pain during CIRCUMCISION, but it's easy to treat. A topical cream made of two types of anesthetic reduces the newborn's pain--as measured by crying, grimacing and rapid heart rate--without causing harmful side effects...
...professor's son who told his mother he could not see himself fitting in with traditional society, and felt at home with Heaven's Gate? Or the mother from Cincinatti, who spotted Applewhite's writings on the Internet and felt compelled to leave her three boys and newborn twin girls to join the group? For their sake, if not for all 39 of the dead, we should stifle a bit of our condescension and maintain the humility that should infuse any discussion of faith...
...with him until she was 20. The household was grim. Grandmother would scream like a "scalded infant"; mother, who lived elsewhere most of the time, beat her daughter with a hairbrush. The child herself was unlikable. There is an unintentionally risible passage where she pries open the eyes of newborn kittens. The teenage years are marked by anorexia ("the dizzy rapture of starving") and bulimia ("I never taste what I eat. Sometimes I don't even know what it is until I throw...
Social policy cannot ameliorate all these conditions. A change in attitude toward parenting and marriage would do children far more good than any government program. Over the past few years, however, there has been a movement in Washington and the state capitals to address the problems of children, from newborn to the age of three. Now neuroscientists, by confirming much of what social scientists had already surmised about early development, are giving that movement added momentum...