They found out that it was the unequal treatment in the American society. Collins and David discovered controversial results. All women should be treated from the start of being in the mother womb equally, we need to take care of our women better to end low birth-weight babies.Īfrican American mothers even those with college degrees have lower birth-weight babies than white American and African immigrant women was because growing up as a minority African female wasn’t good for your health.
When African American mothers have this added stress they can cause their body to into to stress mode, inflame their placenta and cause them into going into early labor and give birth to a premature baby. African American mothers when pregnant have a added stress which is racism, their are look down upon and have internalized stress in them, which affects them personally and biologically which is wrong. We live in a society that unfortunately still lives in racism, in the video they stated that white women never question their race, but 50% African American women do and about 21% question their race at least once day. The reason is due to chronic stress is because of racism and discrimination African American mothers go through each and everyday of their lives. Why do African American mothers – even those with college degrees – have more low birth-weight babies than white American and African immigrant women?Īfrican American mothers even those with college degrees have more low birth-weight babies than white American and African immigrant women is due because of chronic stress. This undercuts the genetic predisposition theory and seems to point to the fact that there is indeed something here in the United States that is causing low birth-weight babies in African-American women. It was found that it only took one generation before the daughters of the immigrants experienced low birth weight babies. They found that white women and African immigrants had the same outcome of normal weight for a newborn, whereas African American women had low birth weight babies. It has to do with a culmination of life experiences, the chronic stress living with discrimination. The doctors hypothesized that racism and the inequalities effect African American babies before they are born, while they are still in the womb. David, they found this is not the case in African-American women, regardless of socioeconomic background, regardless of education, there is a high rate of premature and to low birth-weight babies. However in the study by the two neonatologists, Dr. The nub of the film examines the emotional drama between the natural mother (Pat Roc) and the adoptive mother (Rosamund John) and how this affects Jimmy who after 8 years has to live with his natural mother despite loving his adoptive parents.I won't divulge the final scene, suffice it to say things turn out happily for all concerned.I've been waiting for this movie to be uploaded by someone for some time and am glad this is a new addition to the YouTube.Generally, coming from a high socioeconomic status and better education means better health and a longer life. Going to a dance Pat meets Bill Owen when friendship gradually turns to affection and then love. Along comes Pat Roc with her little Jimmy whose father is a bigamist and who we never see.Holding down a job in a departmental store and being a mother proves too much for Pat Roc and she agrees informally without legal documents that middle class Rosamund and her husband can adopt little Jimmy until such time as she can stand on her feet financially.She has a best friend (Brenda Bruce) who works at the same big store as her, who is married to Leslie Dwyer with four children. Rosamund John has always been one of my film heroines.My collection of her films includes "Green for Danger" (1946), "The Way to the Stars" (1944), "The First of the Few" (1942), "The Upturned Glass" (1947) & "The Lamp Still Burns (1943).In each she plays stoic British heroines often with a background of WWII.In "When The Bough Breaks (1947) she plays a woman who works in a day care home for children while their mothers are at work.She cannot have children herself although she desperately yearns for one.