The Dying Bonds of Motherly Love
The latest new that has been brewing in the back of my mind is this story:
http://www.wpbfnews.com/news/4431073/detail.html
http://www.wpbfnews.com/news/4427081/detail.html
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-stab03.html
Oh, and this one too:
http://courttv.com/news/2005/0505/son_ap.html
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/5/5E7043EB-DC81-4530-A720-8752CFE69BB6.html
Both of these stories are of children killed in suburbs not far from where I live. One of these suburbs I have actually lived in at one point in my life, back when I was still in an apartment.
In the first story, brought to my attention by a friend of mine, it talks of a woman who stabbed both of her children. Repeatedly. One story I read says she stabbed each of them more than 200 times, using several knives they found throughout the house. There was mention that the older child saw what his mother was doing to his sister and tried to run and call for help, but she grabbed him then instead. Apparently she went back and forth between them, stabbing them to death.
My question is why??? What could possibly have made the woman snap like that? I guess she said she was trying to "protect" them from someone in their new church that she thought was going to molest them... ummm...? huh? I'm sorry but I guess those kids needed protecting from HER instead! Oh. my. (insert appropriate diety here).
How could she do it? Unlike the second story, of a woman who smacked her adopted Russian child around so hard she killed him, this woman who stabbed her children was the birth mother! Where was the emotional bond that mother's are supposed to have to their children? This does not sound like the nurturing, "godly" woman that is described by friends and family to the interviewers. What the hell happened that the bond between her and her children could disappear like that? Or was it never really there to begin with? I wonder if we will ever know. I guess that's part of my morbid fascination with the story - I want to know why!?! Just hearing about it makes my blood run cold and my eyes wander towards my son to be sure he is safe and secure.
The second story is just disappointing. There are perfectly wonderful people out there just waiting for a chance to have a child of their own to love and cherish and provide a good home to, and yet now there are statistics on how many Russian orphans have died after being adopted into American homes. I haven't looked to see what happened in the other cases. I'm not sure I should. Any child - Russian, American, or otherwise - dying at someone's hands is just an awful, gut-wrenching thing for me to hear or read about. It upsets me to no end. Children are so innocent and beautiful, even (and sometimes especially) when they are born with medical problems. It's not their fault! If you haven't got the patience to take on the challenge of raising children, then you shouldn't be allowed to adopt. Hell, if I had my way, you wouldn't be allowed to conceive them until you'd passed some test to prove you were ready! Damnit! Children are the future of this world. If we wish to leave it in good hands then we'd damned well better pick up the slack and raise them to know love and compassion!
AAARRRRGH!!
http://www.wpbfnews.com/news/4431073/detail.html
http://www.wpbfnews.com/news/4427081/detail.html
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-stab03.html
Oh, and this one too:
http://courttv.com/news/2005/0505/son_ap.html
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/5/5E7043EB-DC81-4530-A720-8752CFE69BB6.html
Both of these stories are of children killed in suburbs not far from where I live. One of these suburbs I have actually lived in at one point in my life, back when I was still in an apartment.
In the first story, brought to my attention by a friend of mine, it talks of a woman who stabbed both of her children. Repeatedly. One story I read says she stabbed each of them more than 200 times, using several knives they found throughout the house. There was mention that the older child saw what his mother was doing to his sister and tried to run and call for help, but she grabbed him then instead. Apparently she went back and forth between them, stabbing them to death.
My question is why??? What could possibly have made the woman snap like that? I guess she said she was trying to "protect" them from someone in their new church that she thought was going to molest them... ummm...? huh? I'm sorry but I guess those kids needed protecting from HER instead! Oh. my. (insert appropriate diety here).
How could she do it? Unlike the second story, of a woman who smacked her adopted Russian child around so hard she killed him, this woman who stabbed her children was the birth mother! Where was the emotional bond that mother's are supposed to have to their children? This does not sound like the nurturing, "godly" woman that is described by friends and family to the interviewers. What the hell happened that the bond between her and her children could disappear like that? Or was it never really there to begin with? I wonder if we will ever know. I guess that's part of my morbid fascination with the story - I want to know why!?! Just hearing about it makes my blood run cold and my eyes wander towards my son to be sure he is safe and secure.
The second story is just disappointing. There are perfectly wonderful people out there just waiting for a chance to have a child of their own to love and cherish and provide a good home to, and yet now there are statistics on how many Russian orphans have died after being adopted into American homes. I haven't looked to see what happened in the other cases. I'm not sure I should. Any child - Russian, American, or otherwise - dying at someone's hands is just an awful, gut-wrenching thing for me to hear or read about. It upsets me to no end. Children are so innocent and beautiful, even (and sometimes especially) when they are born with medical problems. It's not their fault! If you haven't got the patience to take on the challenge of raising children, then you shouldn't be allowed to adopt. Hell, if I had my way, you wouldn't be allowed to conceive them until you'd passed some test to prove you were ready! Damnit! Children are the future of this world. If we wish to leave it in good hands then we'd damned well better pick up the slack and raise them to know love and compassion!
AAARRRRGH!!
posted by RaynDragon at 12:27 AM
1 Comments:
Its very hard to give reason why a parent would snap but it happens they hit that boiling point and just can't take it. something beyond them takes hold. and that so called connection? Its not always that easy, You know they are your child , your mom or dad they call you mom and dad You sometimes feel that great urge to hug BUt most of the time its just words you hear. like why connect because its all going to be taken away and you never know when. So when someone crys for help in any certain way don't judge just listen sometimes offer to take the children or better yet take the parent out, a bigger person trys not to ridacuel.
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