Sentences with phrase «nurses for white children»

The researchers suggest that in the South in particular, this aversion to breastfeeding is partially due to the historical tradition of black women serving as wet nurses for white children.

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And save for the unexpectedly sweet courtship of a shy nurse (Leonie Benesch) by a mild - mannered schoolteacher (Christian Friedel), «The White Ribbon» mirrors other Haneke films in its intent to show the worst in people, from the authority figures (the baron, the doctor, the pastor, etc.) to their creepy children.

Small Great Things, Picoult's first adult novel since 2014 (see the cover exclusively below), follows an African - American nurse who is asked to be removed from caring for the sick child of two white supremacists.

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses, tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control difference in the overall rates of substantiated rates of child abuse and neglect (irrespective of risk) and an 80 percent difference for families in which the mothers were low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too low to serve as a viable outcome in a subsequent trial of the program in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and reductions in childhood mortality from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of abuse and neglect.20, 22