Alabama woman charged with killing her three children

[The1calledTKE]

CNN) -- Police in Huntsville, Alabama, have charged a woman with capital murder in the deaths of her three children, police spokesman Wendell Johnson told CNN Saturday.

Natashay Yvonne Ward, 33, is charged with killing Shanieka Y. Ward, 11; Latricia Ward, 9; and Christopher O. Ward, 8.

Police found the children's bodies on the floor of three separate bedrooms in their apartment in west Huntsville Friday afternoon, Johnson said. There were no beds in the rooms, he said.

Authorities are not saying when the children died, the causes of death or what evidence they had against Natashay Ward.

The children never returned to school after the winter break, Johnson said.

Some of their family members went to the apartment, Johnson said, but Ward would not let them in.

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[Munchkin03]

The less suitable you are to parent, the more fertile you are.

Also...the less literate you are, the more likely you are to give your kids idiotic names.

[carnation]

Originally posted by Munchkin03
The less suitable you are to parent, the more fertile you are.

Oh, I disagree on that one!

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by carnation
Oh, I disagree on that one!

I'm talking about those people who will have a lot of kids without being able to take care of them. It really bothers me when I hear about some guy who has 10 kids somewhere...and he's in jail.

I'm not against large families at all--DaddyMunch is the oldest of 12, and MommyMunch is the second of 7. It's just that...if you have kids--take care of them or give them to someone who will, please!

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by Munchkin03
The less suitable you are to parent, the more fertile you are.

Also...the less literate you are, the more likely you are to give your kids idiotic names.

Ding-Ding-Ding-Ding-Ding-Ding

We have a winner!

That is so unbelievably true, and so sad. There will of course be exceptions, but those exceptions are rare.

[carnation]

Russ, you need to qualify what you said the way Munchkin did--thanks, Munchkin! I know many families with 3 or more children who are doing an absolutely fantastic job. If you're going to have a big family, as we do, you have to be willing to put in a ton of time--as we do.

I too get nauseated when I meet guys who've fathered a dozen kids with as many women all around town. Naturally they never show up to see any of them.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by carnation
Russ, you need to qualify what you said the way Munchkin did--thanks, Munchkin!

You want it qualified? Sure. First there was the Malthusian view on population. Then, before any of us were born, it was realized that in industrialized societies, the reverse was true. The less educated people are, the more children that they have. This is not an absolute correlation. There will be exceptions like you, but lets not kid ourselves into thinking that this is a loose correlation.

Malthus believed that "the family size of the lower class ought to be regulated such that poor families do not produce more children than they can support."

I don't believe that. I believe that people should be educated so that they can choose an appropriate family size, which is what you, as an educated person, did.

[carnation]

Back in the day--roughly, from the twenties back--most people had no idea how to effectively control births except to abstain. The less educated didn't even know that abstention worked. This still applies in Third World countries. I feel that at this point, Malthus' theories only apply to less educated cultures.

However, you can't tar all big families with the same brush. There's a huge difference between someone who carelessly runs around fathering or giving birth to a ton of kids who'll pretty much raise themselves- and someone who makes a careful decision before adding each child to their family, even if that family is large.

I know many other highly educated families who've chosen to have many children. Right now, I'm thinking of a doctor and a Methodist minister in town who have, as we do, very large mixed/biological families. We have chosen to cherish and educate and most of all, love, all our children. We're not like the white trash from down in the holler who procreate because they don't know any better.

[Jill1228]

What she said! If you have kids whether it is 1 or 15...handle your business! (Mom1228 is one of 7 and Dad1228 is one of 15)

But anyway, I hope that Alabama woman fries!

Originally posted by Munchkin03
The less suitable you are to parent, the more fertile you are.

Also...the less literate you are, the more likely you are to give your kids idiotic names.

[KillarneyRose]

Originally posted by Munchkin03
Also...the less literate you are, the more likely you are to give your kids idiotic names.

I wish I could remember exactly what I was reading, but it is a work of fiction where one of the characters gave her child one of those Natashey/Shanieka/Latricia-type names and her friend said, "Why don't you just name her 'Foodstamp'?"

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
I wish I could remember exactly what I was reading, but it is a work of fiction where one of the characters gave her child one of those Natashey/Shanieka/Latricia-type names and her friend said, "Why don't you just name her 'Foodstamp'?"

Which of course would be pronounced "foe-odds-tahmp."

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
I wish I could remember exactly what I was reading, but it is a work of fiction where one of the characters gave her child one of those Natashey/Shanieka/Latricia-type names and her friend said, "Why don't you just name her 'Foodstamp'?"

OMG.

DYING.

:::flatlines:::

[Jill1228]

Ok KillarneyRose, it is ON
Because of you, I spit diet pepsi all over my monitor! Mr. 1228 gave me a weird look for spitting on his monitor. I read this to him and he is on the floor

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
I wish I could remember exactly what I was reading, but it is a work of fiction where one of the characters gave her child one of those Natashey/Shanieka/Latricia-type names and her friend said, "Why don't you just name her 'Foodstamp'?"

[Phasad1913]

what's idiotic about the kids' names?