<p>As a mother, I can so relate to the parents. This girl might have been my D.</p>
<p>I’m getting to the point where I think some mothers should not be allowed to take their infants home from the hospital after birth. Society has a huge stake in how children turn out–indifferent monsters like these killers are not born that way, just raised way wrong. Perhaps parents can re-apply to have their children returned to their care AFTER the children are five years old or so. After they have experienced love and affection and bonded to other people, and so would be less likely to act like this. Apparently, you need 3 situations to create, say, a serial killer: brain damage, paranoid thinking and an unloving home life very early on. Society can certainly step in and avoid that last characteristic, and should do so when it looks like the parents/mother are indifferent and have no clue that babies need to be picked up and held whenever they are fussy. Something as simple as that, and I have seen that not being done by young and ignorant parents. </p>
<p>I realize this might just encourage people to have babies at home, or some other effect, but the only way to stop the manufacture of monsters such as these men is for society to step in and remove babies when it’s obvious that the mothers can’t handle them. </p>
<p>I so feel for the family of this slain girl. I do worry sending my own girls off to college.</p>
<p>I don’t support the death penalty. It’s just against every principle that I hold dear, but sometimes in the middle of the night, I do wonder if there are some human beings who are irredeemable and who pose such a grave threat to society that they can’t be allowed to live. Did anyone see that story about the lifer who raped and murdered a corrections officer this week? Some are even dangerous behind bars.</p>
<p>“Each person should get two codes - one to use only for an emergency. When that code is entered, the money is given and everything looks normal but police would be immediately notified the name of the cardholder and the location of the withdrawal.”</p>
<p>This is a very good idea. Is it yours or did you read it elsewhere?</p>
<p>nothingpersonal, I am starting to feel the same way regarding parental competency. I have a friend who has worked ER nursing for 30 years. She firmly believes that anyone who wishes to be a parent should have to be evaluated and pass some sort of test–after all we do it for almost everything else–DMV, employment, etc. Of course, I guess the catch there is that everyone would have to be on some type of gov’t mandated birth control and one would have to petition to go off, lol.</p>
<p>cartera, that is a great idea–everyone would have an emergency code—you need to sell that idea to banking!</p>
<p>Interesting that you ask if that is my idea. I was talking to my mother about how ATMs scare me and have turned us into walking banks, and I said that I thought there should be an emergency pin for every card. Within the week, I read about someone suggesting it. Of course, my first thought was - “that’s my idea.” Then I researched it and read the someone came up with the idea of reversing your pin in an emergency years ago. The banks evidently never went for it.</p>
<p>Years ago, we were given the option of a reverse pin for emergencies (holdups). I think it was waaay back in days when Texas Commerce Bank still existed. Not sure what options exist now that TCB is Chase.</p>