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By Carol Anne Davis

ISBN-10: 1782197427

ISBN-13: 9781782197423

From the writer of Children Who Kill and Women Who Kill, an exploration of why mom and dad do the unthinkable

Maria Colwell, Jasmine Beckford, "Baby P"—every time a baby dies violently, the general public reels on the advice father or mother could have been concerned. Carol Anne Davis seeks to reply to the query of the way the protecting intuition occasionally fails and why a few mom and dad fatally damage their very own young ones. studying the tragic phenomena of infanticide and baby homicide, she explores instances of ignored or abused young ones who develop as much as batter their very own infants, non secular and sexual taboos which result in so known as "honor killings," in addition to the techniques of score-settling in relationships, postnatal melancholy, psychosis, and plenty of different homicide triggers. The situations comprise the latest and harrowing case of Mick and Mairead Philpott who killed six in their youngsters in an arson assault on their lonesome condominium.

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Defeat in the face of harassment and persecution. However, the cost in both psychological and economic terms may be prohibitive. In a larger sense, we all lose when victims are frightened away by the acts of hatemongers. To assure our own rights, we must also be able and willing to protect the constitutional rights of all citizens, including those groups we, as individuals, may dislike. Psychologists suggest that rape is a crime of violence; it frequently becomes the means for men who feel belittled and powerless to express their need for control and dominance.

But when substantial numbers of blacks move into a classroom or a neighborhood, whites feel threatened and so reject integration. (7) While black Americans tend to view themselves as victims of white society, white Americans typically no longer acknowledge the persistence of prejudice and dis- 28 Chapter 2 crimination in the lives of blacks. In this way, whites are able to downplay their own responsibility for why blacks tend to have worse jobs, lower incomes, and poorer housing than whites and, at the same time, to justify their own opposition to programs-for example, affirmative actiondesigned to achieve racial parity.

The distorted perception of the reality of life in America can be easily demonstrated by questioning even the most sophisticated individuals about elementary social facts. For example, what percentage of the population of the United States is black? Hispanic? Jewish? According to a recent Gallup national survey, the average American estimates that 30 percent of the population of the United States is black (actually, the figure for those who regard themselves as black or African-American is less than 13 percent); that 25 percent of all Americans are Hispanic (actually, the figure is close to 8 percent); and that 15 percent of our population is Jewish (actually, the figure is only 2 percent maximum).

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