The onus isn't on society (re:men) to intervene before women kill kids. Society isn't to blame, WOMEN ARE TO BLAME! The onus is on women to NOT kill men's kids!

2011-05-18T01:45:45+00:00

"Don't tell us how to dress. Tell women not to kill children"

levelate · 2011-05-18T03:05:13+00:00

couldn't agree more.

we have to stop treating women as victims of environment, and holding them responsible like we do to men.

chavelah · 2011-05-18T14:04:43+00:00

Society =/= men. You're not being blamed for this as a group. But individual men in individual cases (Rusty Yates springs to mind) have certainly failed to protect their children from an obviously crazy mother, even though they had the force of law (they were custodial parents) and the medical establishment (wife was well known to be crazy) behind them. In other cases, other friends, relatives and associates (both genders) have seen the mother gradually losing her shit and failed to intervene, where they would almost certainly have intervened if the crazy parent was the father.

"Society" has some idea about mothers that are seriously inaccurate, and because of that, individuals often don't act reasonably when mental illness manifests in female caregivers. There's no point in blaming, but we could certainly try to start noticing and intervening before the dead kids wind up on the news.

kloo2yoo · 2011-05-18T01:05:01+00:00

But mothers kill their children in this country much more often than most people would realize by simply reading the headlines; by conservative estimates it happens every few days, at least 100 times a year. Experts say more mothers than fathers kill their children under 5 years of age. And some say our reluctance as a society to believe mothers would be capable of killing their offspring is hindering our ability to recognize warning signs, intervene and prevent more tragedies.

rogosk · 2011-05-18T01:22:32+00:00

inb4 "Stop killing your children, women!" government PSAs. Oh wait, that'd be sexist and stuff. Let me change it...

"Stop making your wives kill your children, men!". That should be about right.

Liverotto · 2011-05-18T02:37:38+00:00

I disagree, women are children so they cannot be responsible for anything.

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