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It's not, but then the headline wouldn't subconsciously bias you towards rage clicking.

They don't know she was a single mother. They don't know who she was because they weren't told. The father could have been on a business trip for all we know. That proposed headline injects one plausible guess as to why the baby would have been alone, but without any actual data to back it up.

It also fails to indicate that the baby was alone. You try to imply it by 'single mother', but whose to say that there wasn't someone else in the house that might have been important, like a sibling or extended family member? The detail that the infant was alone was key, but omitted in your version. Of course it's awkward to try to indicate the baby was alone without using the word 'left' in the context of a headline appropriate short sentence.

They could have injected the word "tragically" before dies for a bit more consideration, though people can see that the tragedy is pretty self evident.

Infant only suspect in mother's mysterious death

'Police rescue baby found alone after mother dies days earlier'

Note the story does not indicate the specific age of the baby or even that the cause of death is related to having given birth or something like post partum depression, which is also a potentially worrying cause over a longer term. It could have been an utterly accidental death or unrelated health condition.

You raise a valid set of concerns, but no indication whether it is pertinent to this story.

Don't be ridiculous. The machine that crushes the mother is not the orphan crushing machine - that's the orphan making machine. Different part of the same pipeline. Don't confuse them - they are maintained by different companies.

Left is the word that indicates that someone actively left this baby alone. They could have said baby found alone. Baby discovered. Heck, baby alone for days after mother's death. Baby left absolutely implies it is the doing, or fault, of the person who left the baby. The person who is responsible. Now who will society assume is responsible for a new baby, but the mother?

Even you. You said, hey we could just as easily blame this on society as on the mother! No mention of the absent father.

in fact it even says “after mother dies”

What meme are your talking about? This is just a screenshot of a social media post.

Words do have meaning. Of course you can just imaging your own meanings but then you will be misunderstood.

Since when are memes useful? Theyre mainly propaganda tools but when theyre useless they're called memes.

It's not even certain it's reasonably the fault of the 'system'. There's no details about how or why the mother died or why she happened to be alone with the baby for a few days. A mother taking care of a baby for a few days by herself is not a crazy circumstance without further context. At one point my wife had work and I had to take our toddler on a trip for a couple of days and no one could possibly have accused that situation of me being alone with our toddler due to some failure of the system, even if something had tragically killed me along the way.

There are so many stories about the system failing a baby or a mother, we don't need to extrapolate this specific incomplete story with such details until the actual details are available, which may or may not be consistent with the tragic failures of the system.

It's about the framing. The focus is on the baby being "left alone," with passive language implying that somebody did that to them. Meanwhile, the mother's death is treated as an afterthought, only relevant as a circumstance in the baby's story.

"Left alone" is an intentional act. The mother died so unless it was suicide she didn't leave the baby alone. And then it was in the US and the US has the highest maternal mortality in the West. The headline downplays the tragedy of the mother's death, ignores the tragedy of the high maternal mortality, makes it sound a bit like she was a bad mother rather than a mother that society didn't do right by.

Edit: even a suicide isn't leaving the baby alone because if you are that far out I'm not going to hold you responsible for the baby (although if I knew you I might have a very hard time forgiving / be unable to forgive you).

Depends was she black?

Seems like the authorities didn't release a lot of actionable details to the press. They only see the baby and have a short description of the scene. Not where the scene was or the identity of anyone or a hint as to how the mother died. The journalists are simply reporting the partial story without anything further to go on at the moment. The press likely will be bored of the incident well before the details would be available.

but he still had responsibilities towards this baby.

This is going to sound harsh: If the woman can choose to abort or not, no he doesn't. If women want the sole responsibility on whether a fetus lives, they can get it. Fully. In that case: His wallet, his choice. His time, his choice. etc, etc.

Now, if there is an abortion ban, then it's a different story, and the man should have the legal responsibility for both mom and child, by default.