Gardenlady
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I understand what you are writing here but what is the explanation then for the behavior?
Humans are after all just big, talking animals.
I say someone who kills a baby IS behaving like an animal and not a human.
Humans cannot claim to be domesticated because there was no one to domesticate them. Who's to say humans aren't still wild?
I'm just pointing out that rather than be so angry at the mother - this mother, or any other who has found herself in this situation - we need to place the anger and blame squarely on the person responsible: the man accused.
Because as negligent or dumb or overly-trusting as any of these moms might have been or not, I am doubtful that any of them set out to put their child in harms way on purpose.
And when we say things like "oh, this happens in nature with male non-fathers", then we give these men an excuse. It might explain it. It might not (and there is a lot of rightful criticism against evolutionary psych such as this). But again, human beings are not animals, we have higher brain function. We have evolved past animalistic instinct. An animal acts on instinct because they have to. Humans don't have to. These guys don't deserve to have their acts minimalized even a shred.
Just my two coppers. :twocents: