Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded? "Yer Ugly Mug," etc.

>I understand that in Australia, miscarriages aren't considered human
>(i.e. don't require birth/death certificates), but at least some kinds of
>stillbirths do. This can sometimes create a problem when adults are asked
>to name what they don't consider nameable, as it wasn't ever, to them,
>human.
As a side note, there were/are cultures wherein, according to
anthropologists*, babies where neither named nor considered human until at
least a year old due to the high infant-mortality rate. To my mind, this
raises the question of whether this was at a social level only, or whether
the parents also personally held this concept.

*Anthropological assertions are only as objective/non-biased as the
anthropologist him-/herself.

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