At 04:08 PM 5/27/96 -0400, L. Jean Camp wrote:
Five kids a day die from violence from the hands of their parents.
Not so: I believe this figure is "parent or guardian". Nearly all kids are killed by stepfathers, and some by step mothers. Murders of children by their natural parents are extraordinarily rare. A stepfather or stepmother has even more incentive, and considerably more opportunity, to murder her spouses children than she has to murder her spouses lover.
The infant mortality rate in DC is twice what it is in Havana.
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