Today's was the fifth such attack on school children in less than two months. The country has taken measures to boost campus security in recent weeks. Experts have blamed pressures caused by modern society for the string of attacks. Xinhuanet
Most of the recent school invasions have been blamed on people with personal grudges or suffering from mental illness, leading to calls for improved security. Accounts in China's state-owned media have glossed over motives and largely shied away from why schools have so often been targets. Yet experts say outbursts against the defenseless are frequently due to social pressures. An avowedly egalitarian society only a generation ago, China's headlong rush to prosperity has sharpened differences between haves and have-nots, and the public health system has atrophied even as pressures grew. Yahoo
Editor: A news report last night linked the child murders with China's one-child policy, saying how devastating it is when a family loses its sole progeny. Could there be another connection --abortions and infanticide of baby girls creating a dirth of women for young men to marry, and the lost prospect of having their own children? Wouldn't that be one reason for social instability?
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