(May 23, 2013 at 7:05 am)festive1 Wrote: I agree with Min, adoption isn't an easy choice or always a viable option. There's so many hormones when a woman is pregnant, including hormones that cause a sense of bonding and love. So a woman may KNOW the best thing to do is to give the baby up, but the emotions override that. Flash forward 2 months, up all night with a colicky baby, a mom who didn't really want the baby in the first place... That's (partially) why we have shaken baby syndrome and neglected children.
And that's partly why infanticide is a little more than a slap on the wrist. Kill your baby? Do two years.
Abuse or neglect your baby? Do three years.
