Charges: Mom Pushed Child In Stroller Down Stairs

Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2011-05-07 01:45

Story here. Excerpt:

'MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A mother has been arrested after allegedly pushing her baby in a stroller down a flight of stairs at the Lake Street light rail train station Tuesday evening.

Police said the incident happened during an argument between the mother, 26-year-old Lisa Marie Martin, and her boyfriend. When officers arrived, they found the boyfriend holding the 4-month-old baby as Martin yelled at him. His face was bloodied. A crowd had gathered around them.
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Martin was then seen pushing the stroller down the steps. The stroller tipped over before it could reach Martin’s boyfriend, and the baby fell out onto the concrete stairs.'

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Quite a few Feminists love to talk about every woman has it... that special thing that only women have... maternal instinct... an inborn knowledge about how to care for children. That's such ***BULLSHIT***. This article is another in a long sequence of cases where women are not good mothers, in fact, when they are in the company of their offspring, their offspring are seriously jeopardized. In this case, the boyfriend was a better parent than the mother. And the mother was heavily drinking and she was two months pregnant too. Of course the guy is the one who gets charged with a crime... this is so perverse I am at a loss for words...

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Sun, 2011-05-08 04:22

"in fact, when they are in the company of their offspring, their offspring are seriously jeopardized"

I disagree with such a broad generalization. My mother never abused me and I doubt I was ever in any danger of being abused by her at any time. Most people I know haven't been abused by their mothers, either, though I have met some folks who have been, some quite seriously. I once met a man whose mother used to put cigarettes out on his chest when he was a boy, AND sexually molest him. Believe me, that poor guy spent a lot of time in therapy!

Good parenting can come from either sex; it depends on the person. Are they mentally unstable with some psych condition? Factor 1. Were they abused themselves? Factor 2. Do they have bad coping mechanisms (ie, they are not well-taught to deal with life)? Factor 3. There are others, but all of these can contribute to whether a person can be a capable parent or a good candidate for Parents Anonymous.

IMO, criticisms of mothers generally are as bad of criticisms of fathers generally. It isn't fair to all the people who have been perfectly good parents. The point of all these posts here on MANN reporting mothers doing bad things to their kids is not so much to paint mothers as categorically bad parents, but to impress the fact that indeed, they can be, and some of them are-- some, very bad parents. It is to fight the persistent delusion that mothers are 'special parents', setting the standard by which men/fathers are to be judged. It is that part of things that is utter nonsense and that requires constant fighting to undo the mass brainwashing, just as with the constant stream of women-as-DV-perps or women-as-sexual-misconductors reports here on MANN. Sure it can get tiresome, but all manner of bad news is tiresome. No news is good news, as they say.

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2011-05-08 15:48