The first known appearance of “failure to thrive” was in the 1933 edition of a medical textbook, “The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood.” ...

I was referring to studies on “Failure to Thrive” in orphaned children, particularly the research conducted in Romanian orphanages. After the fall of communism in Romania, thousands of ...

America’s children are in crisis. And by extension so is America’s future. Failure to thrive is a known cause of infant mortality when a baby is not cuddled, caressed, and cherished.