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Tue 27 Apr, 2010 06:22 am
A mom killed her baby due to poverty and that the baby fell in serious illness.
How to describe the mom's behavior? We call it as "human relations tragedy"?
Oh, I think the description is awful. But how to improve?
The mother seems desperate or driven to distraught measures because of the poverty.
The other part of your sentence does not make sense.
@sullyfish6,
Thank you.
But you haven't offered your advice to improve the description.
@oristarA,
I think sullyfish6 has the right idea in that poverty didn't kill the baby. The mother's actions based on poverty led up to the child's death. So with that in mind, can you try to rephrase the sentence?
@TTH,
Thank you.
But I didn't mean to ask the question as what you've said.
I meant to ask you whether the phrase ""human relations tragedy" is good Englsih or bad.
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
A mom killed her baby due to poverty and that the baby fell in serious illness.
How to describe the mom's behavior? We call it as "human relations tragedy"?
Oh, I think the description is awful. But how to improve?
I's probably just call it a tragic situation, or a human tragedy.
@dlowan,
Thanks.
But I want to depict the tragedy between close blood, not between neighbors or strangers.
Infanticide.
Parent(s) murdering a small child is often refered to as infanticide, especially where there are extenuating circumstances such as extreem poverty or a desire, for cultural reasons, to raise a boy child rather than a girl child.
My wife confirms my thinking that infanticide indicates tragedy between close blood reletives and specifically parent/child.
@dadpad,
Thanks.
Infanticide, the word itself refers to a kind of murder, not a tragedy. Although we know that is a behavior of tragedy.
So I will seek another word.
@Xenoche,
Thanks.
But the word infanticide sounds too bloody to be used.
@oristarA,
It may well be that you do not need to gild the lily.
Most people are likely to be aware that a mother murdering her child is a tragedy.
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