Sids/effect On The Family

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...and relished then the birth of a child. However, for some families, this joy is short-lived when, sometimes a few weeks later, sometimes a few months, what appeared to be a healthy infant is found dead. The grief and guilt that parents, in this situation, feel is so severe that it can easily break up a marriage. When doctors began to diagnose these occurrences as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), parents had the consolation that the medical establishment said, in so many words, that it wasn't their fault (Burnham 817).
However, this scenario is once more changing. New recommendations for avoiding SIDS are so specific that once more parents are being made to feel that they should bear responsibility for their child's death if they – for some reason – have failed to follow the recommended guidelines. Furthermore, the heightened awareness of law enforcement officials to child abuse appears to have increased suspicions that some cases of SIDS are really due to abuse or neglect. This...

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