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[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Now I'm curious.

In the United States, cases of children murdering their parents (parricide) are rare, accounting for roughly 2% of all homicides. According to the Parricide Prevention Institute, there are more than 300 parricides each year. This amounts to about 6 incidents per week, which represents less than 1% to 3% of total U.S. murders annually. Parents murdering their own children (filicide) it is more common. According to FBI Statistics, an average of 450 to 500 children are murdered by their parents in the U.S. each year. Approximately 13,000 to 14,000 people are murdered in the United States each year, corresponding to a homicide rate of around 4.0 to 4.1 per 100,000 people.

Between 5,500 and 6,000 people die from choking in the United States each year. Approximately 48,300 people die from falling in the United States each year, making falls the second leading cause of unintentional injury death nationwide. While rarely lethal in high-income nations, diarrheal diseases still cause roughly 300 deaths per year in the U.S

So diarrhea Kills about as many people as kids kill their parents.

[–] Elting@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting, lots of good reasons not to have children but this obviously is not one of them. Like not swimming because of shark attacks.

[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah it's very unlikely then again people generally don't operate on statistics. Like I've seen people super afraid of extremely unlikely things and totally comfortable with much more likely dangerous things.

[–] UnequalExchange@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

the human brain is simultaneously the most logical and the most Dunning-Kruegered stupid thing we have ever encountered.

[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

We are just hairless apes. Sometimes we should really lower our expectations. I'm surprised we've made it this far.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I read a lot of Ray Bradbury when I was younger. Never had him pegged as the one who'd be getting the future right.

https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/storiespdf/the-veldt.pdf

tl, dr - children kill parents when denied screen time

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

It seems like Gen Alpha has all the disadvantages of growing up rich with none of the advantages.

I never thought my family was poor, but I always felt like I was expected to do something to give back, even if it was just keeping my room clean.

[–] remon@ani.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure if there is something going on in Malta, but those numbers seem like bullshit.

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

fastest growing type of family homicide

i.e. 1 in 10 family homicides, not 1 in 10 families

There are lots of reasons to be child-free but this is definitely one of the dumbest I've ever heard.

[–] UnequalExchange@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

exactly its like those people who choose to not get a vasectomy or a bisalpingectomy because theyre afraid of the failure rate. ...dude....The failure rate is like 1 in 2000-4000 and its odds of failure only increase 1. if you injure your balls while the vasectomy is healing or 2. if you have sex unprotected too early.

Also the odds of failure decrease the longer a person has had each procedure because the odds of recanalization decrease and decrease the longer since youve had any surgery.

The odds of failure are so low you practically dont have to worry about . ..Thats why I got it...

Clean as a dream for the past 6 years. I hope my future gf or wife enjoys it as much as I do 🙊🙈🤷🏿‍♂️

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I wonder if Nisa realizes she's advocating for human extinction.

[–] destructdisc@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't see a problem with that, tbh. They brought it upon themselves.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

yeah. most people choosing to not have kids is do to them seeing that if they had them they will have it worse than they did and us destroying the planet. Of course the persons comment is kinda stupid being that eventually. If we got to a low enough population. People would have kids. Humans are not going to go extinct do to not having children.

[–] UninterestingVoid@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Humans are not going exctinct any time soon, buy if the populayion keeps growing it and the respurces might decestabilize and there might be less people anyways at the end.