Learned behavior

[Radetof.Yahska]

An interesting read. Thanks for the downer-upper!

Edit 1 thanks to all

She stood with her pram
repeatedly smacking
her babies cry.                                 ---- her babies cry? does it work grammatically? I'm unsure
Unkempt hair and clothes,
mental health moved her                  ---- moved her --- if the image is of differences, this is a little blurry
in a different way.                            

Take it away at birth,
tubes should be tied,
can’t even look after themselves,
shouldn't be allowed to have a child.       --- this stanza would be better placed after the next one, so as to give a sense of completion to line 3, unless the break in flow is                                                                     deliberate

The father was somewhere else
avoiding eye contact and opinion,
shrinking into the shopping center,
watching the automatic doors
in crisis.

I caught her hand,
holding on at the wrist.
She came back from behind her eyes.          --- this was some trouble. behind her eyes initially felt like someone staring out of the back of their heads before seeming like                                                                          someone coming out of a reverie; resolution was amazing, 5/5, will use this phrase

Its nappy was full                                      --- why the dehumanizing when sandwiched between lines of betterment and reality?
clothes covered in sick,                               --- sick really paints a pretty picture here
how could I explain what a child needs
to a mother that needed the same?

The tone felt ambivalent, a certain detachment from the proceedings. If the idea is one of participation and empathy, maybe work on the tone thing (?)

Again, a very interesting read. What pretty pictures you paint.
Hope this helps!