MBSLynne: Just looked back at my post, and I see how you would take it that way - I did start it off referring specifically to your post, and then became more general - in my own mind at least -

Parenting can be an extremely difficult job ... There was a young man near here just recently convicted of assault for having broken the leg of his two-year-old daughter - it was the middle of the night and she had been bawling for hours; he is a working guy, was tired, alone with her and at his wit's end, and just lost it - no history of violence, no police record, etc. - prosecutor was calling for a prison sentence of several years, haven't heard a report on sentencing yet ... But I think many parents hearing the story must have thought, there but for the grace of God ...