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The country's success in reducing child mortality and population growth can be models for other countries.
Its main city, Portland, became the poster child of the "smart growth" movement by forcing up density, building an extensive light-rail system and restoring its urban core.
These included the rethink on Royal Navy aircraft carriers, the lower-than-anticipated economic growth and the likelihood that child poverty reduction targets will be missed.
It was economic growth that made the elimination of child labor possible as well.
One paper, by Robert Black of Johns Hopkins University and others, reckons underweight births and inter-uterine growth restrictions cause 2.2m child deaths a year (around one every 15 seconds).
He insisted that police were up to the challenge of tackling child abuse on the internet, despite its prolific growth.
It is more likely that the culture of the increasingly child-free northern tier and the slow-growth coasts will, to evoke the past, be the ones gone with the wind.
Those with a natural perspective, such as farmers, ranchers or even child rearers understand the progression of planting seeds, nurturing growth and patience for the harvest.
More interestingly, Education IRAs can be rolled from child to child, giving contributions more years of tax-free growth and reducing the years you lose the other credits.
High-mortality Liberia actually saw impressive GDP increases whereas Senegal, whose record in child mortality is second to none, had a rather anaemic growth rate by recent African standards (3.8% a year, half that of Rwanda).
Screenings at children's well-baby visits more routinely include a thoughtful discussion of a child's development, rather than just his or her growth, for instance, prompted in part by measures in the Affordable Care Act that require coverage of such consultations.
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The Royal College has developed growth charts for children between two and 18 which helps doctors tell if a child has a problem.
The package moves to spur growth by also extending the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the Child Tax Credit (CTC), and the American Opportunity Tax Credit.
Pediatric nephrologists treat the problem by administering growth hormones to young patients, but those treatments usually can't help a child grow to the same height as his or her peers, Spry said.
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"When you irradiate a young child's brain, say less than 5 years old, you hit the pituitary gland, which controls growth hormone production, " he said.
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