ryedaft comments on "Why are young people not having children?!"

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

"Left alone" is an intentional act. The mother died so unless it was suicide she didn't leave the baby alone. And then it was in the US and the US has the highest maternal mortality in the West. The headline downplays the tragedy of the mother's death, ignores the tragedy of the high maternal mortality, makes it sound a bit like she was a bad mother rather than a mother that society didn't do right by.

Edit: even a suicide isn't leaving the baby alone because if you are that far out I'm not going to hold you responsible for the baby (although if I knew you I might have a very hard time forgiving / be unable to forgive you).

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

“Left alone” is an intentional act.

Not necessarily. "The man's death left his wife alone." There's no intention in that, nor even a hint of negligence.

It seems an absolutely utterly normal phrase to describe what happened to the infant in the wake of her mother's death.

They can't say much specific about her death or circumstances because her identity and circumstances of death were not released. They can't claim "orphaned" because they don't know enough about the family. All they know in the reporting is that circumstances left an infant alone with her dead mother's body. The only thing they have is the bodycam footage of an infant and terse description of the scene. No idea if her death was particularly related to maternity. They could have tossed the word 'tragic' in there but it seems self evident.

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