Abusive-boyfriend syndrome a worrying trend

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Last Update: 11/17 2:42 pm



NEW YORK (AP) - Abusive-boyfriend syndrome has become part of what scholars and caseworkers involved in child abuse are describing as a deeply worrying trend.

The cases follow a pattern: A 6-year-old California boy beaten to death, then buried under fertilizer and cement; a 2-year-old Devon Shackleford drowned in an Arizona swimming pool; and another 2-year-old in Utah dead after being thrown across a room. In each case and many others each year, the perpetrator had been the boyfriend of the child's mother.

Studies are raising concerns among experts about the ever-increasing number of children are growing up in homes without both biological parents. One report in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics found children living in households with unrelated adults are nearly 50 times as likely to die of inflicted injuries.

And research by a family law professor at Washington and Lee University finds girls with divorced parents divorce are at significantly higher risk of sexual assault, whether they live with their mother or their father.

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It's really hard work - unreasonably hard without societal help. But because it's so hard, it makes single moms more vulnerable to predators.

but some people DO choose losers to be with, just so they aren't "alone".

It probably doesn't help that so many people won't date any seperated or divorced parent with young children.

I don't know.....so much more can be said. :(

to make choices they would never choose to put themselves in... Its called survival. And a kid doesn't get fed on a Walmart pay check.

in college a few years back. It exactly parallels what happens in the animal kingdom (Lion, Chimpanzee) when the alpha male is overthrown. The previous progeny are killed off in order to bring the females back into estrus and to not waste resources on someone else's gene pool.

We are just animals after all.

Human females don't go into estrus, as I'm sure you know.

This is more than likely in many instances a simple case of "Kid annoys me, I smack it/shake it. It keeps annoying me, I smack it/shake it some more...Oops, it's dead."

It's horrible, but it has nothing to do with the gene pool. Parents have done it to their own kids. But yes, those who are not the parents of the child may feel less to no remorse at all about it.

committed by the boyfriend or by the mother to keep new boyfriend, is VERY common.

And while the female may not go into estrus per se, not having a kid around is more conducive to having another kid from the boyfriends point of view.

the words "live-in boyfriend" occur somewhere in the article. There were several in the local paper this very morning. This situation does seem to be very common.