1944-01: (Le Nouvelliste Asks: Misery or Twisted Mentality?
1944-01: (Le Nouvelliste Asks: Misery or Twisted Mentality? — As a Reporter’s Question Posed in Le Nouvelliste Alluded “Is It Misery That Provokes These Crimes of Infanticide or Is It a Twisted Mentality of These Women?” — Haitian Women and Children Were Dying and Their Deaths Were Interrogated as Possible Gender Neurosis): As a reporter’s question posed in Le Nouvelliste alluded: is it misery that provokes these crimes of infanticide, or is it a twisted mentality of these women? Haitian women and children were dying, and their deaths were interrogated as possible gender neurosis — the question was designed to deflect from the economy and onto the feminine psyche, to locate the cause of infant death not in the $1.50 gourde minimum wage but in the supposed derangement of mothers.