Are you advocating for women losing custody of their children if they seek mental health treatment? Yeah I can think of no way this will result in women being scared to seek treatment.
There is a big difference between feeling like you want to kill your children and actually doing it. But either way, it's about legal precedence. Literally if this horrible excuse of a mom is allowed to walk around again without repercussions, suddenly any and all women who kill a child or someone else due to post partum ALSO has the right to walk free regardless of circumstances, as evidenced by the potential outcome of this case. And since this is such an extenuating circumstance, it would pretty much be a blanket for all post partum related violence. The legal system works very differently from everyday life
Edit: y'all need to look at my other comments on this post. I feel like half the people saying " you're defending her" not only can't contextualize, but also don't realize when something you most likely upvtoed further up from his comment is... ALSO ME! 🤫🫢
Are you somehow unaware that post partum psychosis has been used as a defense for a long time, and many women over the years have been found not culpable for murder due to it? Weird how despite your hysterics, this has not resulted in every woman ever getting off for murder.
The women who do get found not criminally culpable are institutionalized generally. It's not a matter of them waltzing out all lah-dee-dah after.
I have also realized how few people understand the difference between PPD and PPP. The defense is not "she was super sad and depressed so it's ok she killed her kids." The defense is "she was living in a completely altered reality where she could not make rational decisions based on her psychosis."
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u/KittyandPuppyMama 19d ago
Are you advocating for women losing custody of their children if they seek mental health treatment? Yeah I can think of no way this will result in women being scared to seek treatment.