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Recently, I commented in my column on the current wave of infanticide and pedophilia in Brazil. At the time, I explained how aging societies in terminal stages begin to develop collective pathologies, often with parents turning against their own children. I also discussed how Brazil’s tendency to import Western culture is leading the country to suffer from the same pathologies affecting American and European societies. Now, a brutal case of infanticide in the United States exemplifies how advanced these pathologies have become among Americans.
The trial of Lindsay Clancy in the United States offers a disturbing image of a society in decline. Clancy killed her three children in an extremely brutal manner, with several signs of cruelty, including strangulation. Her children were eight months, three years, and five years old, then having no chance of defending themselves.
“Surprisingly,” the case also became the subject of a public mobilization in defense of the killer. Hundreds of women went to the courthouse dressed in pink, carrying messages such as “She Needed Help” and “Justice For Lindsay.” At the same time, a fundraiser created by an influencer to help the defendant’s parents surpassed $1 million, attracting tens of thousands of donations.
The defense argues that Clancy suffered from postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible for her actions. It is evident that many women develop serious psychological conditions following traumatic childbirth. However, it is at the very least questionable how long such “postpartum psychosis” can last, considering that none of the victims was a newborn. over, there are clear signs of brutality in the killings that suggest premeditation and planning, which are not typical of a psychotic episode.
The broader issue, however, lies in the social reaction to the case. In a healthy society, the child occupies an almost sacred position: he or she is the most vulnerable member of the community, the one who cannot protect themselves and whose survival depends entirely on adults. When this moral hierarchy begins to be inverted, it signals a clear deterioration of society as a whole.
Modern Western civilization built an order based on individual autonomy. Each person is expected to choose their way of life, their goals, and, increasingly, their own relationship with reproduction. Having children has ceased to be a social expectation and has become one option among many. The “childfree” phenomenon represents the clearest expression of this transformation: not having children ceases to be a personal circumstance and becomes an identity, an assertion of autonomy in opposition to the very idea of family continuity.
This change has consequences that go beyond the private sphere. A society can function for some time while treating reproduction as a purely individual choice. After all, each individual can rationally decide that children represent costs, responsibilities, and limitations incompatible with their life project. The problem emerges when millions make similar decisions. Individual rationality can then come into conflict with the need for collective continuity.
Abortion occupies another point in this process. Regardless of one’s moral position on the issue, its widespread existence reveals a decisive historical transformation in which reproduction was separated from sexuality and came to be managed primarily as an individual decision. The child ceased to be a socially expected consequence of adulthood and became a possibility subject to the will of the parents.
“Compassion” for a woman who commits infanticide is simply a advanced stage of the same social pathology that legitimizes unrestricted abortion and the voluntary choice not to have children. The child has become such an unwanted and disposable figure in the modern Western mentality that not only do some parents abuse and kill their children – or prevent them from being born – but there are also those who feel compassion for the killers and abusers.
It seems that the West, like any other civilization in a terminal stage throughout history, has forgotten any sense of survival. The child is no longer seen as a link in the chain of continuity and perpetuation. A civilization lives through generations. Parents sacrifice resources, time, and comfort to produce something they themselves will never see fully fulfilled: their children, grandchildren, and the continuity of their community. When this willingness disappears, society can even preserve its wealth, technology, and institutions for some time, but it begins to lose what makes its own reproduction possible.
In the end, infanticide, the childfree movement, and mass abortion are merely symptoms of the same disease: the exhaustion of a society. The West appears to have already exhausted its productive possibilities and is now beginning to devour itself, murdering its own children and destroying any chance of a future. And the most ironic part is that thousands of people watch all of this with emotion and messages of motivational support for infanticides.
