Why Women Kill their Kids and Why We Let Them

[ScotKaren]

www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/psychology/munchausen_syndrome/10.html


Why Women Kill their Kids and Why We Let Them




So, what IS wrong with these women? If they're not insane, why do they kill their children? Why don't men do more of this type of serial killing? And why do we let women get away with this so often?

Serial homicide is always about power and control. It's about who you can kill and how you can get away with it. For men, killing violently is an expression of being manly. The moment of rape and murder, the moment when your victim has the look of total terror enter her eyes -- this is the moment these men feel they are real men. The thrill they get later from reading the newspapers and watching the news, the laugh they get at the police's expense as they live in fear and chase the boogeyman - THEM! - this is their idea of winning! But for most men, unless there is insurance money, killing their children doesn't get enough attention and cheap thrills to make murder a worthwhile crime.


Read the many pages on this on the link above

[johngalt43]

Why the assumption that men and women have different basic motivations? They do have different social pressures, to be sure, but when you get down to it, we're basically wired the same way.

Women comprise a very small minority of the present Death Row population. I believe this to be more due to the reluctance of judges and juries to impose a death sentence on a woman more than anything else. Mind, ANYTHING that results in fewer death sentences is fine with me!