Why Dad’s Kill Their Own Children
“WHAT’S driving so many dads to kill the own children?” asks Allison Pearson on the Mail’s front page.
Below Allison’s smiling face, in “WE’VE LESS TO SPEND THAN FOR 17 YEARS”, readers learn: “Devastating price rises mean families have less to spend on themselves than at any time for 17 years.”
What to do…? What to do..?
May 7th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Are we to be xenophobic about this? which country? we must be told! before we can either be contemptuous and holier than thou or shove it under the carpet?
May 7th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Perhaps Fathers for Justice might like to offer an opinion ?
May 7th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Nah, he won’t believe it!
May 7th, 2008 at 10:21 am
This Dad is Indian and they do seem to exact revenge more readily by taking it out
on the Family.
It is absolutely horrifying that a Father would punish his wife by taking his children”s
lives, in such a painful and terrible way.
May his God forgive him, I can”t.!!
May 7th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Like Uranus (Greek sky god) perhaps the answer lies in the Titaning of their power (perhaps financial power if we have less to spend)?
Jealous of his children’s power and afraid they were going to take over his rule, Uranus kills them (the Hecatonchires, the Cyclopes and the Titans) and throws them in the underworld. Then his worse fear is realised when his wife Gaia instigates their son Cronus to castrate him (putting an end to his sex life) and dethroned him (no doubt his second worse fear).
May 7th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Val
There have been loads of child killings by parents in the past 10 years. Mothers and Fathers, and most have been white (although I don’t think that’s got much to do with it. The honour killing system is a different thing, and doesn’t involve the suicide of the perpetrator).
It seems to be caused by an inability to cope with the pressures of family life (difficult kids, money worries etc) or by the parents being divorced or about to divorce.
I think family and marriages need more support, and our consumer culture needs to stop promoting unbridled narcissism.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
During his teenage years I was often tempted to choke the life out of my youngest son,
luckily I didn’t.
But he turned out fine in the end so it’s just as well.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I hope they wait until the children are plump enough, and they eat them when they have killed them. Meat is very expensive these days.