Throughout history the abuse and murder of young children has been primarily by the mother. Under our common law heritage you can even find murder laws aimed specifically at mothers of illegitimate children. These mothers frequently murdered the child right after giving birth, often by abandoning the child in the forest. An edict of Henry II in 1556 declared that mothers who hid their pregnancies were murderers. If discovered, they risked the death penalty. (Mother love, Myth & Reality, MacMillan Pub., 1980, p 19).
We struggle with our inability to understand how Susan Smith could do such a terrible thing. I won't minimize her blame, but she did not act alone. She was aided and abetted in this tragedy by the anti-father policies and institutions of the state.
Our society has replaced the patriarchal family with the patriarchy of the State. Step by step the State has taken away the prerogatives and rights of the father, replacing him with institutions such as family court. It was a family court that gave Susan Smith custody of David Smith's sons. The same family court also gave her a restraining order preventing him from seeing his sons. When the press asked why this was done, it was nonchalantly brushed off as "routine procedure."
Under the time tested common law, those boys would have been in their father's custody. With rare exceptions under the common law, a father's right to his children was absolute. This is all but gone now. The prisons overflow with children forcibly raised without fathers by state decree. The states' family courts preside over the ever deepening muck of societal degeneration and proclaim they are acting in the best interests of the children. After a century of assault by feminism, the common law of father custody is as dead as those two baby boys and the family courts cannot wash their hands of their participation in those deaths.
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