It's Déjà vu - another infant living in appalling circumstances beaten to death.
We sigh and if we are honest deep down think that perhaps for this child death is a mercy, For surely he had no future from the moment he was born.
And the hand wringing starts - empty solutions are proposed.
Lindsay Mitchel thinks the DPB is implicated. She is correct to an extent but really the DPB is another symptom of our malaise.
In truth the most important thing we are tasked with in this life is to raise the generation to succeed us.
You wouldn't know this from popular culture. Nor are the attitudes and skills required a major part of our educational curricular. Indeed our children are taught more about avoiding conception in a manner where pregnancy is almost portrayed as a disease, akin to genital warts rather than a blessing. And both curable by minor surgical intervention.
And we are led to believe that children will get in the way of our aspirations, particularly so if you are female.
Indeed if you aspire to a high level position in the UN the raising of children may well impede your crawl to the top.
But then again the majority of people do not reach the "top". Most struggle through their lives and until eventually ending up on their death bed, surrounded by those who love them or not as the case may be.
And if you want my opinion, it is the attitudes that society in general has to children and the raising of them that is being reflected in unsubtle manner by the wretched underclass.
We sigh and if we are honest deep down think that perhaps for this child death is a mercy, For surely he had no future from the moment he was born.
And the hand wringing starts - empty solutions are proposed.
Lindsay Mitchel thinks the DPB is implicated. She is correct to an extent but really the DPB is another symptom of our malaise.
In truth the most important thing we are tasked with in this life is to raise the generation to succeed us.
You wouldn't know this from popular culture. Nor are the attitudes and skills required a major part of our educational curricular. Indeed our children are taught more about avoiding conception in a manner where pregnancy is almost portrayed as a disease, akin to genital warts rather than a blessing. And both curable by minor surgical intervention.
And we are led to believe that children will get in the way of our aspirations, particularly so if you are female.
Indeed if you aspire to a high level position in the UN the raising of children may well impede your crawl to the top.
But then again the majority of people do not reach the "top". Most struggle through their lives and until eventually ending up on their death bed, surrounded by those who love them or not as the case may be.
And if you want my opinion, it is the attitudes that society in general has to children and the raising of them that is being reflected in unsubtle manner by the wretched underclass.