The Backlash! - January 1995

Organization News - Dads Against Discrimination 12301 Manitoba NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111 (505) 299-2673

Murder in Families

Another look at the case of Susan Smith

by John J. Aragon


The murder of two small boys by their South Carolina mother was tragic and unexplainable. My question is, why does the media try to slant the story in such a way as to try to blame a man or at least men?

When the story broke, the media tried to blame a boyfriend who supposedly told Susan Smith to get rid of the kids as he wanted her, but not the children. Later, stories stated that the killing of children by a mother is "extremely rare and that it is men, boyfriends or the father who usually kill their children."

This is false.

A recent Justice Department report, Murder in Families, based on a study of more than 8,000 homicides, found that mothers are more likely than fathers to kill their children, and "when a mother killed her child, she was more likely to murder a son than a daughter: 64 percent killed sons, while 36 percent killed daughters."

Domestic relations courts routinely give custody of our children to the mother at a time when the children are in danger. The father of those two boys was kept away from his sons by the "Family Court."

Trying to somehow blame a man for this horrible crime is as wrong as the Mother falsely accusing a "black man" for the abduction of the children.


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