Mommies Paradise

For some sick reason I am laughing at this. Divorce is hard and all but this may not be the way to resolve conflict.

Woman Sets Fire to Ex-husbands’ Penis

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A woman set fire to her ex-husband’s penis as he sat naked watching television and drinking vodka, Moscow police said Wednesday.

Asked if the man would make a full recovery, a police spokeswoman said it was “difficult to predict.”

The attack climaxed three years of acrimonious enforced co-habitation. The couple divorced three years ago but continued to share a small flat, something common in Russia where property costs are very high.

“It was monstrously painful,” the wounded ex-husband told Tvoi Den newspaper. “I was burning like a torch. I don’t know what I did to deserve this.”

Um, well, to answer the fellow’s question…

“…he sat naked watching television and drinking vodka…”

And regarding the 13 year old girl who shot her abusive father in the face, it seems that after actually taking a look at the situation this child was living in the district attorney has decided to try the child as a juvenile.

This child was absolutely abandoned and abused by every single person who’s responsibility it was to protect her. Based on the squalor that these kids were forced to live in as well as the fact that the little girl told a neighbor at some point within the last year about the abuse, I am having a hard time believing this:

But he and his wife saw the girl and her brother when the children visited their grandparents. “They would say they were fine,” Kim Booth said. “They never gave any inclination something was going on.”

The couple said they were unaware of any sexual abuse.

“If the family was aware anything like this was going on, we would have done something,” Kim Booth said. “This terrible tragedy happened because nobody did anything.” (bold mine)

You got that last thing right, lady.

I can’t explain why I am so focused on this particular story. Maybe because no person should ever have to live like this. And especially no child should ever have to start out life like this.

And as much as we would like to think that this is a rare occurrence, it isn’t. Children live like this more than we would like to know. In situations that we do not hear about because these children can not free themselves and no one will help them.

It is infuriating and heartbreaking all at the same time.

Julia Dahl has a piece up at Salon born of a recent victory by Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill. who more than six years ago introduced a bill which will provide 3 million dollars to the National Institutes of Health to “expand and intensify research and related activities with respect to postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis.”

The great news is that the Melanie Blocker-Stokes Postpartum Depression Research and Care Act has indeed received funding to be granted in 2008. The bad news is that nothing good seems to come without a price.

But there was a catch. In order to get enough support for the bill, Rush had to add language encouraging the NIH to study the mental health effects of abortion.

Ah. Yes, of course. Because postpartum depression and the after effects of an abortion have everything to do with each other.

What the huh? Maybe I’m dense but I really do not see enough of a connection for the two to be combined into a funding bill.

I’ve had both. The two are not the same. I am very clear on that.

And I could go on and on but Dahl sums it up pretty well.

Studying the psychological effects of abortion isn’t objectionable. Abortion and its aftermath are women’s health issues, after all, and it’s hard to argue against more knowledge. But there is something distinctly offensive about anti-choice politicians thwarting efforts to expand the study and treatment of a debilitating, frighteningly common disease (which led the namesake of Rush’s bill to commit suicide less than five months after giving birth) so as to equate it with the possible consequences of a procedure they already believe is immoral and should be illegal.

Right.

NOTE: I know this is late. I meant to put this up last week but it was put on the burner while I decided if I liked the new WordPress interface. I still haven’t decided.