| It isn't really "new" and isn't as bad or wide spread as assumed |
| Year |
Headline |
Publication |
Issue Date |
| 1919 |
Born a dope fiend |
Literary Digest |
Jul 19 |
| 1958 |
Born addicts; babies of addicted women |
Time |
May 19 |
| 1959 |
Infant acquires addiction |
Science News Letter |
Aug 22 |
| 1962 |
Sins of the mothers; withdrawal babies |
Newsweek |
May 7 |
| 1972 |
Heroin babies; going cold turkey at birth |
NY Times Magazine |
Jan 9 |
| 1973 |
Youngest addicts; infant children |
Time |
Jan 22 |
| 1986 |
Cocaine babies: hooked at birth |
Newsweek |
Jul 28 |
| 1988 |
Crack comes to the nursery |
Time |
Sep 19 |
| 1989 |
Cocaine mothers imperil babies brain |
Science News |
Apr 1 |
| 1989 |
Crack in the cradle |
Discover |
Sep |
| 1989 |
Cocaine babies: the littlelest victims |
Newsweek |
Oct 2 |
| 1990 |
"Crack babies" in school |
Education Digest |
May |
| 1990 |
Should cocaine moms be prosecuted for addicting their babies? |
Jet |
Jul 16 |
| 1990 |
Pregnant, addicted -- and guilty? |
NY Times Magazine |
Aug 19 |
| 1990 |
Childhood's end [babies born to crack adicted mothers] |
Rolling Stone |
Oct 18 |
| 1990 |
Pregnancy police |
Progressive |
Dec |
| 1991 |
Kids who can't say no [babies born to crack addicted mothers] |
Reader's Digest |
Feb |
| 1991 |
Innocent victims [crack kids] |
Time |
May 13 |
| 1991 |
Should we take away their kids? [crack addicted mothers] |
Time |
May 13 |
| 1992 |
Newborns and addiction [cocaine babies] |
Newsweek |
Apr 20 |
| 1992 |
The cocaine-exposed children are here |
Phi Delta Kappan |
May |
| 1997 |
Hope for 'Snow Babies' |
Newsweek |
Sep 29 |