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 in the supposed derangement of mothers, away from the $1.50 gourde minimum wage.