Your going to be a father...

...now what are you going to do? What your going to lock her up for 24 years, rape her, have children with her and lock them up with her?

I mean there is no one that would ever do that, right? Wait your just going to send them on a 10 mile trek in freezing weather by themselves while you go back to town when you get the car working again? Oh, that's what I thought you said. Nothing wrong with that, and if anyone says otherwise I'll let them know the other side of the story and they will completely understand that you're not a murder, just an opportunist.

To be a father, apparently has begun to slowly take a different meaning to others in society. Granted it is mostly to those that are most demented, but still, fatherhood for those is different.

I suppose it shocks me more because so many villains in fairy tales, Disney or otherwise, are of the maternal persuasion. When really look no further than the paternal flame and you'll much more horror than any mother can bring upon a child.

I mean these two stories of Josef Fritzl and Robert Aragon sound disgusting, but at the same time they don't shock me as much as I expected. Ladies and gentleman, meet our new inspiration for fairy tale villains.

But in all honesty, though these are most egregious acts, these aren't quite exactly as rare as one would think. We'll in their severity, yes, but the principle behind it, not so much.

For instance, 7% of rape, well that is reported mind you, which means it could be more, is done by a relative. Now even though it isn't stated who the relative is, 7% of 272, 350 is roughly 20,000. That's how many are raped by relatives, so even if only a small portion is by fathers, that is still the most disturbing and unnerving thing to know. Oh and that number doesn't even include those under 12.

Now though I don't have the exact numbers on whether or not the 500 parental homicides reported between 1976 and 2005 were more paternal rather than maternal, I do know this, some fathers are much more aggressive than mothers.

Point is this, when your offspring is born, and your declared a father, certain bonds are created. You become the guiding star and the lion of that child, the one they will wish to become and hope will keep them safe and warm in spite of all the hostilities of the world. Instead some decide to take that unique trust, compassion, unconditional love, and ravage this frail being for their own desires.

How in their right minds can they do such a thing? Is this convoluted way of thinking somehow etched in our psyche somewhere deep in the darkest reaches of the human heart? Is it only revealed in those tainted and corrupted, those who act on these primal urges even if the victim is they're own flesh and blood?

Hopefully through the captivity of those who have been committed for such crimes will help us discover these secrets so that no other man can be like this and hopefully the bond will once more be sacred.


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