Fljotsdale wrote:Meh. I'm out of excuses for him then!
hes just an ignorant...umm ya you get where this is going...
@Magrus
theres not really anywhere else that can do something about her that i know of...atleast in a mental hospital she would be kept away from everyone...but then again, same with prison...
Wasn't the baby only 1 month old? Postpartum is way more serious than some people take into account. Some women have serious problems with it - perhaps even problems they didn't experience with their 1st, 2nd or 3rd children. To use a defenseless infant as a weapon in a fight is monstrous, but to say it's EVOLUTION is... unhuman and frightening, imo. It's not just mothers having more and more problems with psychoses in this day and age, either - it's EVERYBODY. Have you ever seen a time when SO MANY people were crazy in one way or another? of course, it seems normal to us, we live in it. So would we also argue that the psychological and emotional ruination of the human race is... evolution? Ayn Rand would have a ball with that theory...
To answer other questions raised here, about how a mother may just seem to reject one of her children... I'm a mother. I have one little darling and one on the way. I personally can't understand that. To me, motherhood is such a strong bond that I can't imagine what it would be like to just not love one of your children in the usual adoring way a mother SHOULD feel about her kiddoes. But I must say, I have a good friend who has three daughters. She is very close to the oldest and the youngest, but she confided in me once that she just for some reason never bonded with the middle child. She wasn't sure why, although that child was a difficult baby, very very very demanding, spending hours every night screaming for no apparent reason, and even now that she's 8, she still is... difficult that way. Though that's no reason for the bond not to happen. I have plenty other friends with INSANE children who would seem to be SUCH a pain in the neck, but of course the mothers adore them anyway, give or take some exasperation. I would just have to conclude that human chemistries work in very strange ways. Just as there are some people we know who we just don't really like without being able to put our finger on it, sometimes mothers just HAVE children they don't feel motherly towards. It may be for a reason you don't know about. It could be anything. Life is cruel. And it's a shame we can't just... switch moms according to our personal preferences and likes.
Let me give a scientific example. With my first pregnancy, I was miserably, horribly sick. My body was rejecting that baby as strongly as it could. I could barely leave the house, I was so sick, and my doctor was really worried about me. I was really thin to begin with, yet somehow I LOST 17 lbs. It was because of the RH factor. My blood rejected the blood of my firstborn. I eventually gave birth and immediately fell in love with my little daughter, and she is by far my favorite little person in the whole wide world, but our chemistries just didn't agree. And now with this pregnancy, I'm fine. I feel absolutely wonderful. And that's the way things go in human relationships, whether they're with family, friends, workmates, enemies... haha I don't mean our relationships are decided by RH factors, I mean things run that way on a less specific, but just as real scale. It's a sad fact of life. But just please don't call it EVOLUTION!
you know what they say about all work and no play...
It's totally not worth the monetary rewards!!!
