Foster's kill at a higher rate?

Reposted to alt.support.child-protective-services and
alt.parenting.spanking

Greegor wrote:
Predicting crime again Kane? Shades of "thought police".

0:- wrote:
What IS this thing called "Love?"

Of course these folks all love their children.


http://www.deathreference.com/Ce-Da/...Murder-of.html
... A history of child abuse or neglect is the most notable risk factor
for the future death (i.e., murder of a child). Scholars note that the
best predictor of future violence is a past history of violence. Most
child abuse killings fall into the category of battering deaths,
resulting from misguided, but brutal, efforts to discipline, punish, or
quiet children. According to a study conducted by Murray Levine and
associates, 75 percent of maltreatment-related fatalities occur in
children under age four. Very young children are at the greatest risk
because they are more physically vulnerable and less likely to be
identified as at-risk due to their lack of contact with outside
agencies. Shaken baby syndrome, in which the child is shaken so
violently that brain damage can occur, takes the lives of many young
children.

There are numerous risk factors for child murder. The criminal justice
expert Neil Websdale has identified several situational antecedents such
as a history of child abuse and/or neglect, a history of domestic
violence, poverty, inequality, unemployment, criminal history, the use
of drugs and/or alcohol, and the availability of weapons. Male and
nonwhite children are more likely to be victims of child murder than
female and white children. ...

... Some fathers kill their son when he is old enough to challenge the
father's authority and they physically fight. Occasionally, fathers have
killed their daughters following rape or sexual exploitation, when they
threatened to reveal the abuse. ...

...The rate of child murder is greatly elevated in stepfamilies. Martin
Daly and Margo Wilson found that whereas young children incurred about
seven times higher rates of physical abuse in families with a stepparent
than in two-genetic-parent homes, stepchildren were 100 times more
likely to suffer fatal abuse. In a sample of men who slew their
preschool-age children, 82 percent of the victims of stepfathers were
beaten to death, while the majority of children slain by genetic fathers
were killed by less violent means. ...

http://www.deathreference.com/Ce-Da/...Murder-of.html

Any thoughts, Greg?