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NC Man Charged With Killing Girlfriend's 4-Year-Old - Local News - Winston-Salem, NC - msnbc.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42684963/ns/local_news-winston-salem_nc/ - broken link)
Aha.
I have nothing to offer...except I bet both "mother" and boyfriend came from impoverished (emotionally, financially) backgrounds. This sort of thing is often generational.
You know, in the animal kingdom, this is common. A new pride male will kill the young of the previous pride male, or the young males will be run off. Females can stay, but the new male will usually mate with them.
Does this sound like what we hear in the news? BF or step dad molests girls in home, or beats young boys in home.
And yet, there are so many great step parents, they should not be lumped in with the bad ones.
Another horrible child murder. You want my thoughts? First how young was the mother? If the BF was only 24, what was mom? Read the article. They lived in a trailer so they are not rich.
A disproportionate number of child beating that result in death are committed by people who are not well off and not well educated.
I have ideas, but I know that no one would like them, I think if people obtained an education, and some maturity before having children, and married before having kids that less of this would go on. Could it be enforced? Absolutely.
My guess is that the mother had the boy out of wedlock in her teens.
Teenagers make lousy parents. Young males get jealous and have hair trigger tempers.
Zahara Bakers step-mother was not young, but she was crazy on so many levels.
Another horrible child murder. You want my thoughts? First how young was the mother? If the BF was only 24, what was mom? Read the article. They lived in a trailer so they are not rich.
A disproportionate number of child beating that result in death are committed by people who are not well off and not well educated.
I have ideas, but I know that no one would like them, I think if people obtained an education, and some maturity before having children, and married before having kids that less of this would go on. Could it be enforced? Absolutely.
My guess is that the mother had the boy out of wedlock in her teens.
Teenagers make lousy parents. Young males get jealous and have hair trigger tempers.
Zahara Bakers step-mother was not young, but she was crazy on so many levels.
I pretty much agree with you Sheena, but society isn't willing to take the kind of radical steps necessary to prevent this kind of abuse from occurring.
You even suggest that teenagers don't make good parents and a bunch of people will go ballistic. Never mind that its virtually impossible to support a kid on the kind of wages that young, unskilled people earn. Never mind, that this world is getting harder and harder for unskilled people to live in and that children suffer the most in these situations. What I will hear instead is a story from someone who was a teen mom thirty years ago and somehow managed and they think that kids today can do the same thing. Maybe they will throw the old cliche' about "not judging people" because the Bible says we shouldn't.
Instead, we'll hear more and more of these stories as time goes on. Its also likely we'll never hear any deeper of a solution than imposing the death penalty or life imprisonment on the perpetrator. And, the problem will continue (probably getting worse) long after we are dead.
I know mark1359. It's not a matter of "judgment",it's a matter of fact.But that is the reaction that I get from both the left and the right.So generally I keep this opinion to myself.
However, statistics do not lie.
And many of the same people who would be aghast at this commonsensical remedy are huge law and order advocates and scream for the death penalty every time this happens.
I understand their horror but it will continue to happen until we initiate radical change.
Drugs did this one. I saw the mugshots of the two adults taken in, they were wiped out. But I also think SOMEthing is wrong with the real parent to the child, to not protect their own is twisted. Family life is not what it used to be, both parents work or both are drunk, someone else or no one is watching the children, attitudes are messed up due to immaturity or raising. We live in a desperate time, too much hate going around and not enough love. The devil knows his time is short.
We all want to take that little boy home with us and care for him. The situation is complex. But on this Easter Day two millenium ago, Jesus rose to show us He was Spirit, and if His words went through thousands of years and still speak to us today, which He said to love one another, then we can also say those words and live them, as He did, and perhaps one day, one day soon, our world will be safe.
Become a social worker, volunteer, become a guardian ad litem, feed the poor, visit prisons and hospitals, speak up when people around you have gone nuts and are yelling at their kids 24/7, the list goes on. Me, I'm disabled, so I am just gonna love every little living being that comes my way with all my heart, and these kinda stories inspire me to keep it up, keep it up, keep on loving no matter what, because good WILL overcome evil, and love will eventually win over all our broken hearts.
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