Fathers who kill their children

Too bad, but this piece of anti-male propaganda published in The [UK] Observer is all too common, however, it is easily debunked.

Focus: Murder in the family

Sunday November 5, 2006
The Observer
In the week when one father murdered his four children, and another was jailed for life, Lorna Martin investigates the motives and twisted minds of the men Americans call ‘family annihilators’. Are they driven by hatred, revenge or mad, possessive love?
(Full Story)

Unfortunately, when it comes to murder, things are not any easier to assess or predict or to project from a single week’s worth of data than it is to state with certainty that a week of mild winter weather is a harbinger of centuries of global warming.

Without spending too much time on a piece of anti-male propaganda like “Fathers who kill their children” that the observer bestowed on its readership, let me go back to a generic piece of debunking that I did once before in similar circumstances. After all, the truth is the truth and never changes, while propaganda changes with the directions of political winds.

Check: Predominantly women, not men, kill children (2002 06 15)

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