Feminists Seek to Obscure the Truth of Female-Perpetrated Child Abuse

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Feminists Seek to Obscure the Truth of Female-Perpetrated Child Abuse

January 13, 2025 – On January 3 police arrested Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, a 26-year-old registered nurse, following a horrific series of “unexplainable fractures” of the bones in patients in the newborn care unit where she worked. Investigators are now looking into seven potential abuse cases – all boys — at the Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond, Virginia (1).

Six days later in the Canary Islands, a man called emergency responders because his wife was threatening to stab their one-year old son. Upon arriving at their house, police found her clutching the baby with a knife in her hand. The police promptly arrested the woman (2).

These two incidents are the latest in the global epidemic of female-perpetrated child abuse, a problem that feminists have worked assiduously to keep out of the public eye.

Research on both fatal and non-fatal child abuse provides an alarming picture.

Worldwide, 72% of all fatal infant homicides were perpetrated by their mothers, according to an analysis by Heidi Stöckl and colleagues at the London School of Hygiene (3). In the United States, perpetrators of child homicides in 2021 were more than twice as likely to be mothers (408 deaths), compared to fathers (186 deaths). (4)

A similar picture emerges for non-fatal abuse. In the United States. the Administration for Children and Families reports, “Of those [child] victims maltreated by a parent, nearly 40 percent (38.8%) were maltreated by their mother acting on her own; 18.1% were maltreated by fathers; 17.9% were maltreated by both parents.” (5)

When parents separate and the mother gains sole custody, the disparities become even more stunning. According to the British Family Education Trust, children who live with single mothers have a 14-fold higher risk of experiencing serious child abuse, and a 7-fold greater risk of suffering fatal child abuse, compared to children living with married biological parents (6).

In short all around the world, mothers are substantially more likely than fathers to engage in both fatal and non-fatal child abuse. Among mothers with sole child custody, the disparities are even more disturbing.

Given such stark differences, one would expect these facts to be widely disseminated and acknowledged. But at the United Nations, agencies are not only obscuring this essential fact, but also disseminating information that gives the opposite impression.

For example, the UNICEF page on Violence Against Children only uses the gender-neutral word, “perpetrator,” giving no hint of the preponderance of female-perpetrated abuse (7). UNICEF also misleads the reader by stating, “Close to 550 million children (around 1 in 4) live with mothers who are victims of intimate partner violence.” (8) UNICEF makes no mention of the well-documented fact that fathers are equally likely as mothers to be victims of partner violence (9).

The World Health Organization is equally dishonest. The WHO INSPIRE Handbook, designed to “end violence against children,” makes no mention of the problem of maternal abuse. The 297-page report turns truth on its head by highlighting the need to “Reduce girls’ risk of experiencing violence and boys’ risk of becoming perpetrators of violence.” (10)

Worse, feminists are now promoting the term, “protective mother,” a phrase that implies fathers are the predominant perpetrators of child abuse.

Once again, feminists are telling the exact opposite of the truth.

The Domestic Abuse and Violence International Alliance – DAVIA — consists of 176 member organizations from 37 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. DAVIA seeks to ensure that domestic violence and abuse polices are science-based, family-affirming, and sex-inclusive. https://endtodv.org/coalitions/davia/

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