Why Some Parents Kill Their Kids - The Early Show

I'm not sure why you equate this with being animals. Most animals don't kill their young.

As to the difference between truth and perception, they are often one and the same to the person committing the murder. For instance, Andrea Tate was suffering from Postpartum Depression and delusions when she killed her kids to save them. It isn't rational to you or I, but I don't doubt she believed it to be true.

The delusional world of schizophrenia is as real to its victim as my world is to me.

Filicide has been going on for centuries, long before the pharmaceutical industry even existed. While it may play a role in some, we certainly can't blame it for all.

Filicide is not school shooting. It is when a parent kills their child. If you want to argue that parents are murdering their children more today than throughout history, then I'm going to ask you to provide a link proving it.

There are cultures where it is tacitly endorsed, like in China or other nations where girl babies are murdered by the millions.

Gendercide Watch: Female Infanticide

The phenomenon of female infanticide is as old as many cultures, and has likely accounted for millions of gender-selective deaths throughout history. It remains a critical concern in a number of "Third World" countries today, notably the two most populous countries on earth, China and India. In all cases, specifically female infanticide reflects the low status accorded to women in most parts of the world; it is arguably the most brutal and destructive manifestation of the anti-female bias that pervades "patriarchal" societies. It is closely linked to the phenomena of sex-selective abortion, which targets female fetuses almost exclusively, and neglect of girl children.

Nonetheless, the argument advanced in the maternal mortality case-study holds true in this case as well: governments and other actors can be just as guilty of mass killing by neglect or tacit encouragement, as by direct murder. R.J. Rummel buttresses this view, referring to infanticide as

"another type of government killing whose victims may total millions ... In many cultures, government permitted, if not encouraged, the killing of handicapped or female infants or otherwise unwanted children. In the Greece of 200 B.C., for example, the murder of female infants was so common that among 6,000 families living in Delphi no more than 1 percent had two daughters."

That isn't true. Most psychotropic drugs do a lot of good. There have been very few that are questionable. It isn't hard to avoid them.

There have been many, many changes in our society that should be considered before anyone tries to blame any one factor. For instance, a media that glorifies violence as the way to solve problems. Illegal drugs. Increased pressure in an increasinglystressful society. Domestic abuse. Ghettoization of many communities. The list is long.

No one has the answers as to why any single person does any single thing, good or bad. To pretend it is one thing and one thing only is simplistic thinking about a complex problem caused by complex human beings.

But if you want to keep making the claim that parents are murdering their children due to psychotropic drugs, then please produce the relevant studies.