Wednesday 22 June 2011

Do A Mother Kills Her Child?

A question arises after hearing the news that a mom of US has killed her baby by burring her in the micro woven, do mother kill their own children. Though there are some incidents in the past, where parents have killed their children, still it is not believable that do a mother kills her own offspring.

It has been reported that a mother has killed her three months old kid after burning her in the micro woven. Still it is not clear how this had happened and the mother is facing the trial.

It is astonishing to learn that a mother who longs to have a child kills it, just after birth. But incident that has taken place in United States stands as an example for such phenomenon. We have to believe that some mothers would be so cruel that they do not go back to kill their own kids. But always it is not cruelty but some other reasons that prompt them to do so.

Some mothers indulge in such activities on sudden instinct and repent latter. In countries like India honor killings, girl child killing are rampant in some parts. Fearing about the dowry to pay at the time of marriage some parents kill their girl child as soon as they take birth. In other cases parents kill their daughters even after they achieve the age of marriage, if they love some one and tries to marry.

In fact women are not so cruel like men. They have lot of fondness and forgiveness. They are wet at their heart. Mothers look after their children with lot of affection and they feel pain even if the child rolls down.

Then why some mothers kill their children? Some do it in a spur of moment and some do it with a vengeance on their husbands. It is a nature of the women that they could not control their anger and emotions. Most of the times they leave the house or commit suicides.

But in rare cases they kill their own kids like a snake eats its own offspring. In fact all think that child would be more safe if it is with the mother. But some mothers defy this confidence. But this is not a general phenomenon. Only a mad mother can do such things.

Most pathetic thing is that in such cases no one can imagine such things in advance and there would be no chance to save the child. Children will be kept off their mother only when she is mentally ill and father thinks that it is not safe to keep the child with her.

However, some women did not manifest their cruelty and no one will suspect her. Even the father will also do not expect that his child is not safe with his wife. In micro families there will be no one in the home after the father leaves. Even maids also leave home in the morning. This gives an opportunity to mentally ill women to do what they want.

The bottom line in this issue is that no one can be faulted and no precautions could be taken. Another question arises here is that shall we condemn the women? Shall we excuse her on for one or other reason? A woman could be forgiven if she kills her child on a spur of moment and on an impulse. But if she kills the child in cold blooded manner, she did not deserve any mercy.

Since there is no way to find out that a child is in danger even it is with her own mother, civil society can not do anything. But we can learn a lesson from such incidents. We can not do anything than cursing the mother who killed her child and pity the victim.

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