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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (11235)	7/8/2001 5:18:28 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

I definitely agree your list has a lot to do with child abuse and murder. But I'm confused about how your list links with women alone murdering their children, instead of both parents/step-parents. Charley made a good point about postpardum depression. I need to do a little more reading regarding this condition. Off the top of my head I'm wondering if it's mainly a mental or physical condition. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that women are many times more likely to murder their offspring than men. Here's an interesting bit of information.... quebecoislibre.org A hospital in Great Britain installed hidden cameras to survey children who they feared to be at risk of abuse by their parents. They found dozens of cases and made headlines about abuse by « parents » and « step-parents ». The Life Channel chronicled the story (this version was translated and ran on Canal Vie as well). What all the commentators carefully hid was who these « parents » were: there was one grandmother, one father... and thirty-seven mothers. Judging from the references to « step-parents », I suspect that the man wasn't really a father either. How did the hospital choose the people to watch? Every case involved previous children who had died in mysterious circumstances. To be more precise, 37 killer moms murdered 40 children. Total jail sentences imposed: 0, even though some of the women confessed when confronted afterwards. About 1300 child murders took place in the US last year. About 500 perpetrators were non-parents, roughly divided between men and women. Of the rest, only 30 (!) were fathers. In other words, mothers were more than 25 times more likely to kill their progeny than fathers. Yet somehow, men are viewed as being more dangerous to their children than women.