Cemetery Chronicles: Babies and children

Cemetery Chronicles: Babies and children

“If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what grief is, bury him.” - Giannina Braschi In the 1980s, infant mortality in the United States was extremely high. The child mortality rate (under five years old) was 462.9 deaths per 1,000 births. The infant mortality rate was around 27% in the first year of life, with approximately 50% of children dying before reaching the age of fifteen.