The good old days.

Girl, 14, kills baby at school. Tragic? Yes. But some Freepers see this as a symptom of our immoral, modern time. They yearn for the good times. And by good times, I mean the 1800s.

isrul goes for some old time religion. And justice:

I'd like to punish her with a noose. Stuffing something in the infant's mouth
and then claiming she didn't know it was in the toilet. Yeah. I believe that.
Self centered little demon makes the bad seed look like Shirley Temple in Heidi.
No sympathy or compassion for her.

Dante3 echoes the lack of compassion for this 14 year old.

She should be tried as an adult - for sure she will grow up to be a dangerous
sociopath.

Rehabilitation? Never heard of it! When Dante3 was 14, his sense of maturity and consequences were already completely defined! And by defined, I mean awesome.

EyeGuy gets philosophical. Kinda.

Standards of decency do not evolve.

Our society is not maturing in the sense of becoming more civilized and wise. We are becoming more brutal, coarse, barbaric and perverted. America of 100 years ago was MUCH more civilized.

Ah yes, 100 years ago, when Blacks sat at the back of the bus, women couldn't vote and colonialism was killing many, many people. In other words, the good old days!

MrB goes philosophical as well, but morally:

Everyone has this innate sense of right and wrong - whether they listen to it or
not is a matter of parental training.

Timeouts, Love & Logic, reasoning with a child, not wanting to “break their will”, etc, leads to children with a sense of right and wrong suppressed by their stronger sin nature that enslaves them to their nihilistic tendencies.

"Stronger sin nature" what comes from not breaking a child's will? Damn! That's some serious 1800's thinking there.

Speaking 1800s reasoning, wintertime tells us how it should be for unwed mothers:

Probably because their parents keep it hidden

This is how unwed motherhood should be treated.
The mom should be secluded. There should be a sense of profound shame and sorrow. The baby should be adopted and not aborted.
Forget the baby showers, the free day care at school, the school support groups, the nursing mother’s rooms at school, and the gangs of other girls cooing over the new baby....etc.

Shame! SHAME! That is the only way to treat unwed mothers. And no supporting single mothers neither! SHAAAAME!

But wait! montag813 notes that one must

Take great care with how you treat the mother during pregnancy. It has been
shown that women who have experienced great stress during pregnancy (WWII women during London "blitz" is the largest study done) have had a much higher risk of hormone related abnormalities in the child (hermaphrodism, sex organ deformities in extreme cases, homosexuality is less extreme cases).

This explains all the total gaylords of the 1800s. In fact, I here they were accepted in some places at that time! Better look back to the really old day of the 1700s! That's the ticket!