“This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behavior, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc’d obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.”
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in other news………….
The number of children killed by their mothers without the father’s involvement is double the number killed by their fathers without the mother’s involvement:
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/publications/cm03/figure4_2.htm
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data on child abuse shows that over twice as many children are battered by their mothers (40.8%) as by their fathers (18.8%), excluding cases in which both parents are abusive (16.9%)
http://faq.acf.hhs.gov/cgi-bin/acfrightnow.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=70&p_created=1001611491
http://faq.acf.hhs.gov/cgi-bin/acfrightnow.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=Ab6*SKTh&p_lva=&p_faqid=70&p_created=1001615091&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MTImcF9jYXRfbHZsMT0xMCZwX2NhdF9sdmwyPTMwJnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/publications/cm03/chapterfour.htm#status
US Dept of Health and Human Services
National Clearing House on Child Neglect and Abuse Information
http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov/general/stats/index.cfm
http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov/pubs/factsheets/canstats.cfm
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