Auntie Charo's Soapbox

I've looked and searched for the word I could use for a father killing a child but couldn't find one. There is a word for a child killing a father,(patricide), a mother (matricide), even one for killing a sibling(fraticide), even one for an infant(infanticide), but a child? Nary a word!.

Here's an excerpt from something I stumbled upon on-line:"the English speaking people create the words like “ patricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, pesticide and even genocide”. In English, you will find when more complex ideas are expressed, logical relationship between one event and another will not be expressed by conjunction such as because and so." Obviously, mankind has been known to kill its own, why would there be words to name the acts if they didn't happen more than once, but why not a word for the killing of a child older than an infant? What is the word used for a father or mother killing a three-yr-old?

I hate that the man died. I wanted him to live and be conscious for a long, long time. I wanted him to realize what he did to his little boy and his little girl. I wanted him to pay for his sin. I didn't want him to get the easy way out. I'm a little upset with God gave him for giving him the easy way out, but can only surmise that He knows what's best. I hope that in His infinite mercy, he gives the children's mother the strength to endure the pain she must be going through with the lost of her little boy and the worry she must be going through for the little girl.

We have Erica's house just for cases like separations such as this man and woman had. What happen. Why weren't the children brought to Erica's house to be picked up there? Surely the mother knew that the man had emotionally unstable. Whatever we discuss, the milk is spilled and no going over the event will bring back the little boy. We can only learn from this sad event and pray that it never happens again.

What a terrible way to celebrate Easter for that poor family. I hope that the woman had a good network of support and that whoever reads this will remember her in their prayers.