Brain Fertilizer

Since this is already in the legal system, it is unlikely to turn out to be a hoax.

We are hearing more about the murders (and attempts) to steal babies from other women's wombs. We are hearing more about mothers murdering their babies. Or starving them, or poisoning them, or abusing them.

Are things really getting worse? Or are we, as a society, just beginning to realize that mother's love is no more (or less) universal and automatic than father's love?

I think it's just the nature of an increased information flow. We can hear about things much more quickly and easily, and the more lurid the tale, the more it reaches prominence.