From: Beth Benoit [beth.ben...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2012 9:23 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] the 27th and 28th victims in Newtown
I am also very annoyed by people saying there must have been something the
parents
I am also very annoyed by people saying there *must *have been something
the parents - particularly the mother - were doing wrong to make Adam
behave as he did. It sounds like the mother was known to be a caring, kind
and generous person. NOT someone with a lack of affect, isolation and
withdrawa
But still, to Beth's point, a mother and her son were also lost. The
son--to what terrible cause? The mother, simply by being. There are people
who will miss them. At the least, a father, brother, son. As terrible as it
is for the 26 others, and it IS unimaginably terrible--it is also terrible
for
You might also discuss why a hundred times as many people are killed in car
crashes as in plane crashes, but plane crashes get more publicity.
On Dec 24, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Mike Palij wrote:
> Cullen's main point is that in situations like Columbine and Newtown, most
> of the initial information
On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:12:33 -0500, Beth Benoit wrote:
The count of victims seldom includes Adam's mother and, of course,
himself.
I hope that most of us on TIPS can dig a little deeper than to join the
thoughtless, unprofessional armchair psychologizing that blames Nancy
Lanza
for her son's a
