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In what must be one of the darkest research projects weve covered, a British team has studied 32 years worth of family annihilator cases, where one member of a family murders multiple others. Some patterns emerge from the 71 cases they found.
For one, the killers were overwhelmingly male: 59 of the subjects. Of those, more than half were in their thirties. About 20 percent of the killing happened in August, and almost half happened on weekends, mostly on Sundays.
Why? The researchers write that many of the cases are based on perceptions of masculinity and power being challenged. The reason so many cases happen on weekends and in August, they argue, is that an estranged parent (again, usually the father) will have access to the children during the summer months and weekendsbut by the end of that time, he may have to return them to the mother, which would explain the killings happening in August and on Sundays. (The data bears this out: the most common motive behind the killings, the researchers found, was a family breaking up, which included issues like access to children. That category accounted for two-thirds of stated motives.)
The team also breaks down some assumptions people might make about the killers, such as that they were always frustrated men with a history of mental illness. In fact, 71 percent of the killers were employed, and many were in successful careers. (Although many also werent; the researchers say the second most common reason given for the murders was a financial strait.)
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/14/why_men_kill_their_families_on_sundays_in_august_newscred/
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Either that or they really hated work and the start of a new week on Monday.
I heard once (could be true or not) that more heart attacks occur on Sunday for the same reason.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)where football season starts next Saturday using a conventional round ball. We also have Sunday matches.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)No one here is intently watching the pre-season NFL games and even the MLB pennant races don't get that much attention until september. For some reason, I didn't think EPL football started until September, but I'll admit I'm not that up on it.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)The Raiders were playing, although I don't remember who. Someone in the overly-packed holding cell threw his shoes at the TV until he broke it, and what looked to me like a full scale riot broke out. I'm not a hundred percent what happened after the violence started, because me and fifty of me newest friends were piled in the corner, alternately begging rival gang members and guards to please not beat the shit out of us.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)well, not sense, but an obvious time of stress and potential conflict.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Just a guess.
I always forget to record that extra thirty minutes for my husband. Won't forget this year.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)your hubby is lucky. You always have to record some extra
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I even pretend to watch it.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)and she tolerates a football game a week and two games during baseball season.
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)And I have my iPad.
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)Not quite sure why you would want to make him believe you like something when you actually do not.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)It's harmless, and might make someone feel good (and pretending to watch doesn't necessarily equal pretending to like it).
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)You're messin' with tradition, Jack!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)He works a lot and can't be here all the time. He wants to cuddle. I can get up and leave if I want to, but whatevs, he watches my shows all the time. I don't have to like it to sit there and read a kindle book or video chat with my BFF.
Besides he watches project runway with me.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I do the same thing for my wife while she watches the crusty old British ladies on Masterpiece Theatre, and she jams her feet into the sore spot on my lower back. It's a good deal.
lapislzi
(5,762 posts)My ex-husband used the flat of his hand as a memory aid.
I'm sure that's not what you meant, but the words still ring in my slapped ear: "you won't forget again, will you?"
bravenak
(34,648 posts)You want me to delete it I will. My ex was like that too.
lame54
(35,259 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)the o,e take wifey on a boating trip kill. Ladies, if your hubby takes you out on a boating trip and brings an empty cooler...don't go.
nolabear
(41,930 posts)The supervisors warned us that we'd get more drunk and angry calls on Sunday than any other day. People have been together all weekend, football games make people furious, there's a lot of accumulated liquor drinking and then there's a kind of maudlin sense that Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest, goddamn it and you're not LETTING ME REST!
And indeed it was. Criers, ragers, people who should have been calling 911 instead. It was a mess.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)nolabear
(41,930 posts)*snort!*
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)and Saturday nights, were know for domestics. On Sunday, it started in the afternoon, and on Saturdays it started when it got dark. Should have received hazard duty pay for those times.
nolabear
(41,930 posts)It was my experience that it started in the afternoons on Sundays too. She hates big football Sundays.
flvegan
(64,404 posts)Loudly
(2,436 posts)Stabbing was the preferred method. Shooting was way down the list, presumably due to the relative lack of availability of firearms.
BainsBane
(53,012 posts)I believe crime in general goes up in the summer.
This point is interesting: