WolfmarsGirl
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Here's another story about parents killing kids. Sorry, I don't have names and locations.
I think you have to define 'history' of psychosis. I mean, to me, Patsy Ramsey always comes across as being a few cards short of a deck, if you get my meaning :crazy:
How about Darlie Routier??? Who knew with her?
You've got to understand, with stats like they are with parental killings, not everyone who kills their babies can be given their '15 minutes of fame.' And hence, no news coverage.
What I do know is that parents lose control frequently, especially under stress. Even good-kind-loving-All-American-white-God Fearing-blonde-haired-blue-eyed-birth parents snap from time to time.
Of course, there aren't any useful statistics for the evil-hateful-foreign-non-white-atheist-adoptive parents out there. After all, we naturally expect, them to abuse their kids, right???
Yes, I am still fuming from that remark...Don't worry, LP, I will get over it. I am just kind of prodding at you light-heartedly... :furious:
http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2001/07/09/p3s1.htm
"...Though few incidents attain the notoriety of the Yates case, filicide is fairly prevalent in American society. A study in the 1960s found that 1 in 22 homicides in the US was committed by a parent who killed his or her child. More recently, an FBI study of data from 1976 to 1997 showed that a parent is most often the culprit whenever a child younger than 12 is killed.
Worldwide, the figure may be higher. Larry Milner, a Chicago physician who has written extensively on filicide patterns throughout the ages, estimates that 10 percent of all children die at the hand of a parent - either from abuse or from a single, sudden event.
Many experts draw a sharp distinction in motive between parents who kill their babies soon after they are born and those who do so after a child's role in the family has been established. Those latter cases, they say, fall into five categories: altruistic, delusional, unwanted, accidental, and vengeful..."
(emphasis mine)
I don't know...take your pick. I always thought this was an accident. I didn't know we had five choices...
I think you have to define 'history' of psychosis. I mean, to me, Patsy Ramsey always comes across as being a few cards short of a deck, if you get my meaning :crazy:
How about Darlie Routier??? Who knew with her?
You've got to understand, with stats like they are with parental killings, not everyone who kills their babies can be given their '15 minutes of fame.' And hence, no news coverage.
What I do know is that parents lose control frequently, especially under stress. Even good-kind-loving-All-American-white-God Fearing-blonde-haired-blue-eyed-birth parents snap from time to time.
Of course, there aren't any useful statistics for the evil-hateful-foreign-non-white-atheist-adoptive parents out there. After all, we naturally expect, them to abuse their kids, right???
Yes, I am still fuming from that remark...Don't worry, LP, I will get over it. I am just kind of prodding at you light-heartedly... :furious:
http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2001/07/09/p3s1.htm
"...Though few incidents attain the notoriety of the Yates case, filicide is fairly prevalent in American society. A study in the 1960s found that 1 in 22 homicides in the US was committed by a parent who killed his or her child. More recently, an FBI study of data from 1976 to 1997 showed that a parent is most often the culprit whenever a child younger than 12 is killed.
Worldwide, the figure may be higher. Larry Milner, a Chicago physician who has written extensively on filicide patterns throughout the ages, estimates that 10 percent of all children die at the hand of a parent - either from abuse or from a single, sudden event.
Many experts draw a sharp distinction in motive between parents who kill their babies soon after they are born and those who do so after a child's role in the family has been established. Those latter cases, they say, fall into five categories: altruistic, delusional, unwanted, accidental, and vengeful..."
(emphasis mine)
I don't know...take your pick. I always thought this was an accident. I didn't know we had five choices...