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Children in low-income homes hear 30 million fewer words by age four than children in high-income homes. Unfortunately, children who struggle with a limited vocabulary in kindergarten continue to struggle in seventh grade, in high school and even into adulthood.

#nextgeneration #closethewordgap

#aerial archaeology #Klaus Leidorf

#jeremy mann #hellskitchen

#notabugsplat

I am afraid it is going to hurt you, but, I’m sure it won’t harm you permanently.

#earnest hemingway

#Aleksandr Romanov

“I am saying this because I feel that the word ‘safety’ with regard to women has been used far too much — all us women know what this ‘safety’ refers to, we have heard our parents use it, we have heard our communities, our principals, our wardens use it. Women know what ‘safety’ refers to. It means – You behave yourself. You get back into the house. You don’t dress in a particular way. Do not live by your freedom, and this means that you are safe. A whole range of patriarchal laws and institutions tell us what to do in the guise of keeping us ‘safe’. We reject this entire notion. We don’t want it.”

Freedom Without Fear is What We Need to Protect, to Guard and Respect

For most of European and U.S. history, midwives had attended births. Some were incompetent, some were skilled. The best ones wrote and read reports on techniques and treatments, and there’s some evidence they were becoming better trained and having better outcomes during the early 1800s. Doctors had little to do with childbirth—they were all men, and it was considered obscene for a man to be present at a birth.

The Disturbing, Shameful History of Childbirth Deaths

#slate #midwifery

#fuco ueda

#livia marin

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