>> “Depressingly so, the single most likely cause of violent death in children is their own parents.” <<
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Yes. - Dogs, dirtbikes/quads, ski boats.
http://www.slate.com/id/2063086/
It happens more often than I ever imagined.
Just in my little podunk area, we've had two parents kill their kids in the last month or so.
Horrible.
The Numbers
Children under the age of 5 in the United States are more likely to be killed by their parents than anyone else. Contrary to popular mythology, they are rarely killed by a sex-crazed stranger. FBI crime statistics show that in 1999 parents were responsible for 57 percent of these murders, with family friends and acquaintances accounting for another 30 percent and other family members accounting for 8 percent. Crime statistics further reveal that of the children under 5 killed from 1976 to 1999, 30 percent were murdered by their mothers while 31 percent were killed by their fathers. And while the strangers, acquaintances, and other family members who kill children skew heavily toward males (as does the entire class of murderers), children are as likely to be murdered by their fathers as by their mothers.