Comments about ‘Cedar City infant allegedly critically injured by father dies’

There just are no words....

People, parents, caregivers, anyone who has responsibility for a child, PLEASE get help if you find you have the urge to shake or slap or throw a child! We all get frustrated and impatient at times, especially when a baby cries and just can't be comforted. But most people do not go on to inflict injury. It's better to just walk away and let the child cry in his/her bed or crib than to hurt that little one out of frustration.

To those of you who have lost children this way, I'm so sorry for your loss. May you have God's blessings with you.

As one with 2 small children (and a Cedarite) who has felt frustration to the point of wanting to silence a child in any way possible, it kills me to hear of these situations. I second Utah girl. Wives/Mothers, please talk to your husbands/caregivers about what to do in these situations (where the child is incessantly crying or deliberately misbehaving) and how to resolve them.
As a young father I felt this even more. Be aware of young fathers- especially those with high-stress schedules (school, some jobs). The hospitals try to help by showing a 15 minute video, but it is hard to put yourself, as a new father of a few hours, in that situation.
The advice is much more valued if it comes from someone that is respected- and maybe even someone who has felt that situation themselves.

My prayers go out to the children and infants, the families who've lost a child as a victim or a person as a perpetrator to a rash moment of intense frustration, and to the fathers and caretakers with a few too many things on their plates.

If we really want to stop this sort of thing, then we as a society to have the mentality that to every hit a child is not ok.
We should view hitting, or striking a child as assault. And charged criminally just like we would if you hit your wife or girlfriend.
I have five children, and have never spanked, or hit them EVER.
That is not to say they have not been disciplined or corrected.
There is nothing that spanking does to correct behavior that is not better corrected with talking to them and having consequences.
I am not going to say I have perfect kids, but they have never been in trouble with the law, and they have been good students.
They also have tremendous self esteem, their father has never hit them, and they know they are loved.