Why some parental acts should never be pitied and are purely selfish
Associated Press article titled Boy escapes out window as mother drives minivan into Hudson River, killing herself and three children told the story about “a 10-year-old boy escaping through the window of a minivan and swam to shore to get help just as his mother drove the van into New York's Hudson River, killing herself and three other children, police said today.” When I first heard the story my heart went out to the mother and the four children but then I thought why should I feel pity for the mother? She made the choice of suicide for the three children alone without giving them an opportunity to decide for themselves. This was not the act of a mother who loved her children but rather a selfish act of a coward who could no longer stand to live in this world and instead of taking her own life she decided to take the lives of three innocent children which in my book are called murder. When “Lashanda Armstrong drove that minivan into the river off a boat...