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Originally Posted by Willravel
But seriously, how serious is this overweight women snatching babies thing? Shouldn't we be protecting the newborns or something? What are the overweight women doing with the babies?
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It's a generalization of the description of the supposed perpetrators who are most inclined to snatch newborns, i.e. rotund, middle-aged housewifes (lonely or not).
In the instances of cases that are reported of missing children in or around hospitals, there usually is a vague description of "a suspicious-looking heavyset woman wandering around the scene"; this would not at all be uncommon, given that the most likely area of a hospital where a newborn were to be abducted would be the maternity ward. Lots of big-bellied women there, right? But it goes deeper in that the more highly-publicized cases of abduction are indeed perpetrated by mentally-unbalanced, unattractive, and yes, sloppy women in the range of late 20s-to-early-60s in terms of age. It would be just speculation on my part, but the supposed reasoning for the kidnapping is in most ways attributed to the woman's inability to produce a child of her own, or at least find a good man/keep a healthy partnership, so they endure some kind of "mental lapse" in which they seek to end their suffering by connecting with what they have yearned for for far too long, a tangible progeny. Some maintain a sensible and functioning level of sanity during and after the period leading up to the crime, but some do not. All that is being processed in their warped mindset path is to embrace a child that they could never have envisioned having in reality, and it crosses over blindly.
It's downright depressing, yet this malignment still needs to be broadcast and made aware. Again, this is just speculation, but I'm sure this did not just pop into my head all of a sudden, and it probably has some kind of medical/psychological-identifier, in the form of "maternal-snatching syndrome" or something. I'd check the archives on medical ailments, specifically those that are mental, but my books are sorely outdated, like from 1978... so this might be a new trend.