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...child. But experts say the statistics are too sketchy to categorize rapists; the exceptions spill across all social classes. Says Judy Ravitz, executive director of the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women: "They're your employer, the people who go to school with you, anybody." Fred Berlin, a psychiatrist who runs a clinic for sexual offenders at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, says his patients include a priest, doctor, lawyer, teacher and television administrator...
...more by the time they were retested at the age of one year. This kind of nurturing is essential to both emotional and intellectual growth; indeed, the two are inseparable. "The baby who doesn't smile may be giving us a more reliable indicator than cognitive tests," says Psychiatrist Eleanor Galenson of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center...
...wrote Mother Love: Myth and Reality. But even if a mother's nurturing is an instinct, it requires some experience as well, and if the ability is entirely a learned trait, it is sometimes none too well learned. To check on how consciously mothers interact with their babies, Psychiatrist Daniel Stern of the Cornell University Medical Center has been observing nearly 100 mothers playing with infants eight to twelve months old. "Whenever we notice that the baby has put on an emotional expression that the mother has seen, we look at how she responded to it," says Stern. "Then...
...babies do any of the things they do is a matter of considerable complexity. Some theorists, like Thomas Verny, a Canadian psychiatrist who wrote The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, believe the infant begins learning behavior patterns while it is still in the uterus. Most experts, however, assume that the genes still carry messages that primitive humans once needed for survival. The so-called Moro reflex,* for example, which makes a newborn infant reach out its arms in a desperate grasping motion whenever it feels itself falling, implies some monkey-like existence at the dawn of time. Says Lewis...
...know that babies are coming into the world with a lot more sophisticated skills than we had previously thought, but I do not think reading, writing and arithmetic should be in their curriculum," says Psychologist Tiffany Field of the University of Miami School of Medicine. Warns Child Psychiatrist Robert Harmon, director of the Infant Psychiatry Clinic at the University of Colorado School of Medicine: "I think you're going to get children burned out on learning." And University of Denver Psychologist Kurt Fischer says of the baby's first year: "Don't worry about teaching as much...