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THEY ARE HEEEEEERE

Did you know that babies from affluent families hear an average of thirty MILLION more words before age 5 than babies in families below the poverty line? For context, Les Miserables is about 650,000 words and it looks like this:

So it’s like reading this book 46 times.* And that’s not the total number of spoken words, that’s the GAP between affluent and poor babies. And these are the years in which the brain undergoes the most development. It’s mind-boggling.

So what I’m saying is: keep doing the thing. Do it to all babies, all the time. Narrate your day. Ask them for opinions. (“Should we buy the large bag of potatoes or the small bag?” “Gaabooglagje.” “Yes, just as I thought.”) Point out colors and shapes and letters. Let them scribble outside the lines and treat their babble like talk. Sing them nursery rhymes and Raffi songs and songs from the radio. All of these things are going to build their brains to prepare them for kindergarten and beyond.

Drawing this was emotionally taxing.

Then, as he put his hand on the door handle to leave, he felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Alice. She held out her hand as she had done so many times before. Expecting a candy wrapper, Neville held out his hand but felt something heavier drop into it.

15 people with Down syndrome tell a mom what kind of life her child will have.

disabled people quite literally constantly being portrayed as a burden to be rid of. “I could never raise a disabled child!” “Disabled children are so hard to have!” as if that isn’t incredibly dehumanizing and disgusting to reduce disabled people as nothing more than a problem.

with that, the constant push for what is essentially eugenics.

the repeated “um lol wow pro-life people dont want to ADOPT how terrible and hypocritical” even though that isn’t the case for everyone, and yet absolutely zero criticism is ever put against IVF for that exact reason. and adoption is solely put on the shoulders of people against abortion instead of everyone which would actually help more children in the system.

“pro-life is just a bunch of old rich white guys who want to control my uterus” as if the thousands of women fighting for it aren’t valid or even exist. as if one of the crucial founders of the feminist movement wasn’t also staunchly pro-life.

roe v wade used as a big victory & driving force when the ‘roe’ of roe v wade heavily regrets her decision to have done that and is now devotedly pro-life.