Potpourri 1 - Popular Mechanics

"I want the baby." page 2

Although it was very short, this story left me with many unanswered questions. Why was the couple breaking up? Why did they physically fight for the baby? Was the baby their child? Why were no quotation marks used? I find ironic that the title of the story is "Popular Mechanics," yet many grammatical mechanics were omitted. Also, I have a thought as to why the couple is breaking up. I think the man may be abusive. This probably would explain the woman's irrational behavior when the man wanted to keep the baby. If the man is dangerous, she would not feel comfortable leaving the baby in his care. I think that the style of the mechanics may coincide with the theory that the man is abusive. Maybe the lack of quotations is supposed to reflect that the man is uneducated. Uneducated men are more prone to abuse than educated men.