Sadly, killer moms are not uncommon

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2009-02-04 23:25

Letter to the editor here.

'The horrific killing by Penny Boudreau of her 12-year-old daughter, looking into the child's eyes while strangling her, should make us both shudder and consider. While this cold-blooded killing is extreme by any standard, a large sample study of child deaths in the United States showed that mothers were involved 60% of the time and acted alone as the perpetrator in one-third of the killings.

Despite this, governments have ministries for women and children and universities have faculties of women and children -- all designed to further the myth that the greatest risk to children comes from men, and specifically fathers. The research statistics suggest otherwise.'

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They could have also gone into the fact that mother lead in every form of child abuse except sexual abuse (but it's even possible they are doing that far more often then data suggests). They could have talked about domestic violence and how women are often the perpetrator in that as well.

It is time we started exposing the myths as such and this is a nice article to see in the National Post but it would be great to see more.

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Submitted by Paragon on Thu, 2009-02-05 21:01