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I’m Sick of Asking Children to Be Resilient [nytimes.com]

Laura Pinhey · 5/13/203:24 PM

FLINT, Mich. — A baby born in Flint, Mich., where I am a pediatrician, is likely to live almost 20 fewer years than a child born elsewhere in the same county. She’s a baby like any other, with wide eyes, a growing brain and a vast, bottomless innocence — too innocent to understand the injustices that without her knowing or choosing have put her at risk. Some of the babies I care for have the bad luck to be born into neighborhoods where life expectancy is just over 64 years. Only a few miles...

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I’m Sick of Asking Children to Be Resilient [nytimes.com]

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