Rise of Fascism. As the United States turned inwards to deal with the lingering effects of the Depression, militaristic regimes came to power in Germany, Italy, and Japan promising economic relief and national expansion.
Human faces are one of an infant's favorite and fascinating things to observe, especially when it's mom or dad or his own image staring back at him in a mirror. By 3-months-old, most babies know the difference between familiar faces and strange ones.
Babies do recognize eye contact from parents as early as two days after birth, according to a 2002 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.. The newborns in the study preferred to look at faces of people who were looking directly at them instead of those with an averted gaze.