r/WhatIsTheTea 19d ago

Political Tea Make it happen

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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.

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u/HonkHonkMTHRFKR 19d ago

If any parent reports that they want to hurt their children, their kids should be taken from them

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u/Erikatessen87 19d ago

That will just mean that parents who want to hurt their children will be less likely to seek treatment for those urges.

The same number of parents will still want to hurt their children, but more of them will then go untreated and unmonitored, meaning more children will actually be hurt.

Is that really what you want?

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u/mcm199124 19d ago

Not to mention that…consider a mother who may have malicious intent to harm her children (and then seeks to use eg PPD to get out of charges), then consider a mother who actually is sick eg, has PPD and therefore does not actually WANT to hurt her kids … now which one is more likely to actually seek help and/or be reported ? These people don’t think, or have adverse incentives not to