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...ages of one month and one year than any other affliction. Doctors now believe that one cause is sleep apnea, the unexplained tendency of many babies to stop breathing while asleep. If that respiratory interruption continues for several minutes a baby can die of asphyxiation, unless a watchful parent rushes to shake the infant into breathing again...
Major problems remain. A first is cost: the alarm sells for $1,500; parent training sessions, social worker home visits and a 24-hour hospital team of doctor, nurse and alarm repairman can bring the final tab to a daunting $4,000. Moreover, many apnea-prone babies die from a first attack, before parents are aware of the need for medical help. Most discouraging, apnea is almost certainly not the sole cause of SIDS (one Boston specialist puts the incidence rate at anywhere from 5% to 90% of all SIDS cases), so the alarm can only be a stopgap measure...
Bloch's unconventional theories are quite likely to raise a few hobgoblins of their own among her colleagues. One reason: they run counter to a central doctrine of psychoanalysis, the Oedipus complex. In Bloch's reworking of that Freudian gospel, the kids are attracted to a parent, not out of the incestuous impulses postulated by Freud, but as a sexual strategy to gain control over a threatening parent. One needs only to return to the original Greek myth for proof of her infanticide theory, says Bloch. Unfortunately, she adds, the master apparently missed the key point: the young...
Chafin was unable to reveal the identities of the suspects, who are both age 16 or under. Both youths have been released from police custody, one on $100 cash bond and the other on personal recognizance to a parent. Both have been charged with armed robbery...
...Robbie Bostin of Stamford, Conn., joint custody of their son Shepard, 12, made so much sense that they put such an arrangement into practice nearly a year before a court made their divorce final last November. Shep spends two days a week, and alternates three-day weekends, with each parent. "My friends know where to reach me," he says. "I just give them the phone numbers and the schedule. It works...