“The article defined “infants” being given these drugs are under 12 months of age. Who in their right mind would spank them?”
Never had a kid, I guess.
Okay, fair enough. How would you know? One does *not* spank tiny babies. Not even back in the old days when spanking toddlers was considered normal.
Dr. Spock was still big when I was a toddler. My mother said the first time she spanked me it was with his book lol. It was a paperback, though — whew!
It’s crazy and sick to give babies psychotropic drugs. I can’t fathom it. I guess Prozac is the modern day Paregoric?
You're on to the right answer. Our families are much smaller, and people don't have enough experience with infants anymore. Maybe no experience at all. They think they have to do something chemical to stop the crying.
Possibly people don't know how to love babies anymore. They've never seen it in action. In past generations, we all knew how to soothe a crying baby because we saw so many of them in our daily life. Even a few decades ago I remember my young relatives being amazed that I just picked up a crying baby out of his stroller and gave him some love and attention to stop the crying.