tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6035955300082286703.post3059008777294914403..comments2024-01-11T05:12:45.986-05:00Comments on MOTHERS WHO KILL CHILDREN: FILICIDE: by animalsM Clement Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14422621517381625768noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6035955300082286703.post-35385206297497447572011-12-22T02:31:34.515-05:002011-12-22T02:31:34.515-05:00Filicide in the animal kingdom occurring in animal...Filicide in the animal kingdom occurring in animals is tied much more to a parental response to the perception of resources required and available for the investment of the massive amounts of energy required in raising viable members of their species. <br /> The litter size needs to be realistic, so some may need to be culled. The progency must seem healthy with no apparent significant disabilities or disorders. There are signs that indicate an environment that will provide the needs in food, shelter and be free from diseases. That's where captivity may not convice some species through olfactory and visual cues that getting food and no deseases is a guarantee plus not seeing the right training ground for what the mother thinks ahe needs to teach for her proginy to be fully viable.Cubs and kittens need to be taught how to hunt various prey, identify and evade predators efficiently and proper social interactions of their species. There will always be degrees of individual differences amongst animals sensity thresholds of when it triggers a reaction of abandoning or killing their own young. <br /><br />Humans are not that much different, except for two critical areas. In a sense we have overlapping litter situations because our young are dependant for so long. That means the mother may execute children that had a viable potential because the next litter item is from another environmental context. The other difference is we are greatly regulated by existing social rules and practices. It means many a mother has suppressed filicide when deficits in proginey and environment elicit this with social sanctions being a far stronger deterrent and restraint. Humans can also follow practices such as substance abuse that create imbalanced patterns of processing and self cantered living freeing them from all kinds of constraints wether innate caring tendencies or external social sanctions. Furthermore our medical progress means a proportion of persons devolve with endocrinal, cognitive and other deficits breeding though more vulnerable to inadequately parent so altering even further neurological systems of their young to parent effectively. The stimuli for infanticide as a result in humans become distorted. I'd claim that it really is abnormal the sanctions constraining infanticide of developmentally disabled progeny with no prospect of developing properly while depleting resources of others lives and it is often those who succumb to those pressures that are punished by society through lacking the capacity to conceal such being so overwhelmed by the pressures endured. The remainder of infanticide occurrences result from actual endocrine disorders of the mother distorting her perceptions or coping with pressures and other forms are a result of parental deficits in the context of parents who prioratise their own personal agendas. This latter group are the ones most adept in concealment and the most likely ones to escape deserved sentencing in using skills of boundry breaking while evading consequences practised throughout their life in other social dealings. There are a small minority who may experience a psychotic mental illness episode who react to distorted perceptions killing infants and children without any normal frame of reference fitting the truly insane criteria. Likewise an ill equiped intellectually disabled mother reacting as to any other threatening pressure to the demands of an infant. Society created a level of sanctions for infanticide did so that sufficient functioning members would reach adulthood to contribute to strengthening their social group recognising infants make essential but unpleasant demands of sacrifice from their parents who whilst in the main could be nurturing would face taxing times but control reactive frustrations guided by social expectations and fear of punishments.Eye-of -the-stormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05975035585230646405noreply@blogger.com