This according to the latest Governor's Report:
Homicides also increased by 13 for a total of 55 last year. Crying, potty training and feeding were the most common triggers for the fatal abuse, most often committed by the boyfriend or husband of the child's mother, according to the draft.
I'd always heard that you have to be careful about the people you piss off because one day it might be the wrong one. I propose a campaign to impart that knowledge earlier, with a particular focus on hospital nurseries. Just keep hammering that message home, until babies get it through their soft, unfused skulls.
Some might think it would more productive to counsel women to get control of themselves and be careful about the men they're dragging through their kids' lives, but really, who are we to try to cramp anyone's style?
And any cracks about cats being better mothers are just out of line.
Somehow I'm thinking they rank just above pedophiles as the most despised people in the prison food chain.
Posted by: Gmac at December 16, 2007 06:03 PMIf you started teaching babies this stuff in hospital nurseries, the ACLU would be all over that like, like, well like stink on a poo diaper.
Beside, who are we to mess with natural selection by trying to upset the balance of nature, if the babies and toddlers can't beat up Mama's boyfriend then that's just tough. At least that's what the great Charles Darwin said.
Posted by: John Masters at December 17, 2007 02:31 PMI'm curious as to what the boyfriend vs. husband breakdown is. If similar, I can understand deliberately conflating the two.
If not, it seems odd to withhold such useful information, in which a common lifestyle choice can raise the risk of violence toward children.
But, what the hell. Let's just demand more caseworkers and congratulate each others.
Posted by: CJ at December 17, 2007 10:27 PM