Comments on: Wave of Japanese Mothers Killing Their Kids–Guess Who’s Fault It Is?

By: Choey

Choey — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:10:52 +0000

In Japanese society, your child doing poorly in school is a loss of face and is considered to be very serious.Â Whether or not it would lead to murder would depend on the individuals involved.

By: Mc Kiernan

Mc Kiernan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:00:57 +0000

Oops, I forgot to quote these special words from Mr. Sacks:

"This isnâ€™t the anti-male bigotry of feminism as much as itâ€™s the anti-male bigotry of traditional chivalry."

By: Mc Kiernan

Mc Kiernan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:10:54 +0000

McKÂ hasÂ some real problems with Mr. Sacks. Like he is always no more than 42 %Â accurate. This post seems to follow the same pattern.

Suicide and in this case, materal filicide, involves the darkest regions of the human soul.Â The japanese culture has a totally different approach to these mattersÂ for those that would chose to get on the learning curve.

Even the "Also note the father who was conned & guilted into blaming himself for his 3-month-old sonâ€™s murder at the hands of his wife." is not spared in this melodrama.

Glenn’s problem is that he extrapolates and de-culturatesÂ the very words ofÂ Masami Ohinata, the developmental psychologist at Tokyo’s Keisen University and he uses each of the three quotationsÂ to refute Masami Sensei toÂ support Glenn’s private conclusions.

i.e. the father who was conned & guilted into blaming himself for his 3-month-old sonâ€™s murder at the hands of his wife.

The bottom line is that Glenn Sacks has totally failed to understand Masami Ohinata and the cultural milieu from which he lives and teaches and he errantly cherry picks MasamiÂ in quotations totally out of context to self-serve Sacks personal agenda.

By: Hank Barnes

Hank Barnes — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:07:12 +0000

It is bizarre that once a society gets affluent (money, sex, MTV) it starts getting comfortable with the intentional killing of its young.

In the olden days, life was so miserable you had to give birth to 6 kids, in hopes that 3 wouldÂ surviveÂ childhood illnesses.

By: jrogge

jrogge — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:16:26 +0000

This is very interesting. Also note that Japan is not having enough children to maintain it’s population. I wish I knew more about modern culture there but I bet what this article discusses is part of that phenomenon.

By: Mc Kiernan

Mc Kiernan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:36:57 +0000

I would like to ask Scott Kirwin if he has any thoughts on this post ?

By: lawrencema

lawrencema — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:27:35 +0000

I think people just don’t want to take responsibility for their own actions – it’s always someone else’s fault…

By: Dean Esmay

Dean Esmay — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:35:51 +0000

I just wonder at times if it’s embedded in the race that we don’t want to hold women accountable for actions like this. Maybe it’s just genetic or something? I otherwise find it hard to fathom.