Quote Originally Posted by tforturton View Post
If you read the papers every day, you'll know that stories similar to this one come up on a regular basis. This one is based in Spain, and is pretty gruesome, but very similar events pan out in the UK at least every couple of months. There are two common scenarios - Husband kills kids and then himself, or Husband kills wife, and kids, and then himself. The husband is missing in the story mentioned above, but you can bet when they do find him, he'll have killed himself.
Yes, this is a sick and evil thing to do, but these guys can't be in their right mind when it happens. Divorce (or the threat of having your kids taken away) is one of the most stressful things any man can face, and it's not surprising that some of them crack. I'm not forgiving any of them, nor making excuses, but perhaps we should be more on the look-out for this sort of thing.
Its not just fathers that do it!