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To: Sr K who wrote (198253)4/26/2009 7:15:24 AM
From: DebtBombRespond to of 306849
 
Cause Examined in Recent Rise of 'Familycides' Over the past four weeks, five men, including one particularly brutal New York case, have killed their families, then themselves. Though among the rarest of crimes, accounting for 1 to 2 percent of the 15,000 recorded homicides a year, these familycides have alarmed (the very few) experts in the field.

"We have never seen anything like this before," says Kristen Rand, legislative director of the Violence Policy Center in D.C. Like her colleagues, Rand believes that the economy is the largest motivating factor for what experts call "family annihilators" - men who unleash their biblical wrath and devastation on their wives and children, sometimes killing themselves, sometimes not.

What's happening now is in stark contrast to our most comparable economic decline, the Great Depression. That era provoked a spike in suicides, the proverbial men jumping out of windows (there were 18 suicides per 100,000 deaths in 1932). But this recession, for reasons unknown, seems to be spurring far more brutal behaviors.

foxnews.com



To: Sr K who wrote (198253)4/26/2009 2:24:23 PM
From: Smiling BobRespond to of 306849
 
The current market view is that the worst has passed. The uptown clowns and Punxatawney Phil say it's so. And when you've hit bottom, everything's coming up roses.

May have to wait another couple of quarters to prove them wrong once the reflex nerve gets severed. But for now, everything is viewed as a sign of improvement. Prolific unexpected green shoots are usually weeds.


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