Bet you didn’t know that cooing at babies is a human-rights violation.

A statement from Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax [England] said staff had held an advice session to highlight the need for respect and dignity for patients. On one ward there is a doll featuring the message: “What makes you think I want to be looked at?” … Debbie Lawson, neo-natal manager at the hospital’s special care baby unit, said: “Cooing should be a thing of the past because these are little people with the same rights as you or me. We often get visitors wandering over to peer into cots but people sometimes touch or talk about the baby like they would if they were examining tins in a supermarket and that should not happen.”

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