Baby Cages: A Mother's Deadly InventionHow city parents once dangled their infants out of windows.

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The Secret Life of Objects

In the 1920s, a new invention promised to give city infants a healthy dose of fresh air. It was a wire cage, designed to be suspended from an apartment window. This now-horrifying practice was once widely accepted, promoted by doctors and reportedly even used by Eleanor Roosevelt. This story examines a time when a dangerous idea was considered the peak of good parenting, and asks what today’s parents might be getting wrong.