Posted on 04/17/2011 5:40:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
“A 1999 US Department of Justice Study concluded that between 1976 and 1997 in the United States...”
And that was even before the American Idol watching started and the anti-man movement got into full swing!
Something about this article does not ring true. It is as if the author invented the history of her own supposedly tragic circumstances. In the process she repeats all the cliches of female victimhood. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but the writer seems to have an upper middle class point of view, while the circumstances she describes rarely happen to people with the ability to express themselves in writing as she does. I suspect she majored in feminist studies in college.
Amazing how they can turn a murder/suicide by some b@tch of a mother into a screed against men AND a sob story about the author’s personal life. I guess it’s true what they say about most women, “it’s all about meeee!”, the narcissism of this story is truly sickening.
As Thelma Ritter in All About Eve says: “She has everything but the bloodhounds snapping at her heels.”
You mean you sensed a FAKE ALERT? I did too.
From her link:
“Forced into a shotgun wedding after her high school was featured on national television for having the highest number of pregnant teens in the United States, Daleen found herself married to a coal miner who kept her barefoot and pregnant. By age twenty-one she had four children. Sister of Silence is the amazing story of her personal journey, and how she went from being a teen mom to an award-winning journalist determined to break the silence that shatters women and children’s lives. Kenneth V. Lanning, a retired FBI special supervisory agent who spent more than twenty years teaching about family violence at Quantico, Va., wrote the foreword for Sister of Silence. He says it’s “ultimately (a story) of survival and hope.” Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell, a Johns Hopkins nursing professor and one of the country’s leading family violence researchers, calls Sister of Silence “wonderful!”
In addition, Dr. Campbell has recently placed the book on her reading list, for students in her 2011 family violence class!”
The Cheat River is only 1-5 feet deep through Preston County.
IOW, the author of this piece is a moonbat. Thanks Kaslin.
Not true. Mom’s boyfriend is a lot more dangerous.
And there's no doubt that anyone who kills children should be executed...I don't care their excuse.
Well, those who don't commit suicide.
That anyone could express sympathy for this so-called mother is beyond me.
This is E X C L U S I V E L Y the fault of the person committing the crime. It has nothing to do with the culture or the law...with this single exception: Stupid people sympathize with this criminal. And, for the most part, p3eople in this country are not held into account for their violations of the law.
In the deepest darkest corner of depression a horrible act such as this seems so logical.....these aren’t the happy balanced people that we are talking about, these are incredibly depressed people that see no light and not an even a glimmer of hope.....
Yes, it is outrages this happens and I am angry as well at these selfish acts but only those that have seen or suffered the effects of depression understand this darkness.......
Our culture is destructive, and people let it be as it slides down the slope of the hill into the mud. Baby killing to starving someone to death, mocking God to making seventh graders be a ‘moslem’ for weeks as a required class, generational divide while the governments pile on debt onto children unborn.
OUR culture is destructive. NOW. Today.
I was not pointing to whose fault it was, just stating the culture does NOT encourage motherhood. In fact, the author of this article is a case in point. She is full of making this tragedy about herself and her leftist feminist BS.
Clinical depression can warp an entire worldview, and yet the sufferer can know that these thoughts and feelings are quite unreasonable, not what God or goodness would prefer to prevail, and refuse to act upon them while diligently seeking out any help possible. What is really frustrating to people with the good fortune to have such will power is that many doctors won’t even believe their report that they are suffering badly! These doctors do not understand inner moral wars and carry on as pure behaviorists. Modern medicine and counseling, thankfully, can alleviate most depressions. Saving faith in God usually goes even further and yet the walk may take far longer than overnight.
Yes, it’s true that the whole idea of family is cheapened today. Mothers, fathers, and children all suffer as a consequence, as biological families forget what used to be common wisdom and nobody reminds them.
Thank you.
What an interesting statement. If I may, why would the way in which someone expresses themselves in writing have an impact on the life events the author describes?
There are two issues here. Poverty and neglect/abuse. Had this same woman lived with some poverty, but was with a man with some integrity, the despair would not have been so over bearing. Someone could have all the riches in the world, and live with abuse/neglect and still feel the same way as this woman. It’s not always about the money, but about the broken spirit.
Loose screws sink ships eerr.. cars
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