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The psychological and cognitive implications were most intriguing and provided some insight into the murderers thought processes. What was found most disturbing about the fact that children were targeted in these slayings is the backdrop of the one child per family rule that governs procreation in China. Although the loss of any child is devastating to parents, when all you are allowed to have is one, and that one is summarily and so violently taken from you, the implications from that are even more catastrophic; particularly in light of the hopes and dreams, and often economic survival the one child may have represented for the families.
Although the article was found disturbing and simultaneously intriguing, the slant from which the authors write is clearly biased toward their own work. More objective information would avail the reader the opportunity to formulate their own opinions with regard to the information provided. At times,...
However, at time same time, the authors did provide sufficient information that would cause the reader to want to delve more deeply into the information provided.
Whether the authors were able to provide insight as to whether China is a wilderness or a society is yet unclear to this reader. The lack of morality by which the killers operated would certainly give one the impression that China is more of a wilderness; however, as disturbing as these incidents are, the entirety of China's societal value cannot and should not be relegated to the actions of a few obviously disturbed individuals.
References
Steinmueller, H., & Fei, W. (2011). School killings in China: Society or Wilderness.
Anthropology Today, 27(1), 10-13.
Methods of Killing The methods of committing neonaticide, infanticide, and filicide are as diverse as the women who commit the tragic crime. According to Rouge-Maillart, Jousset, Gaudin, Bouju, and Penneau (2005), strangulation, head trauma, drowning, and suffocation were the four most frequent methods of filicide. However, in these researchers' study, some mothers used what they deem to be 'more active' methods. Five children died after being struck by their mothers' fists.
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