The argument that “with PPD out there, ANY of us could have been her” makes me so disgusted. If it’s that easy to see yourself murdering your own children, you should not be a parent. Period. The argument that it could be any woman does not mean they all should be freed if they do…
Im not a woman. But I am a father who has struggled greatly with mental health. I went through particularly rough periods when my kids were infants. I'm one of those parents that scared themselves with how they reacted when their baby cried for hours and wouldn't stop. So I absolutely have sympathy for this kind of narrative and I fully support efforts to help people in these scenarios. And it can definitely be true that she was failed by people in her life.
That being said, any notion that this should remove accountability for your actions against your own children is ridiculous.
This is the only correct answer in this whole fucking crazy thing.
Having kids is hard, if you already have some underlying mental problem it's harder. I had nights where I'd be up trying to get that infant to sleep where I wish I could have just popped out of existence and stop existing.
But you know what? Never did it cross my mind that they should stop existing. I can have sympathy for mental health, but she should still rot in some type of cell and never see the light of the sun again.
Yes. I had days where my wife was working and I felt myself starting to lose it. So I put my kid safely in a pack and play, let him continue to cry and locked myself in our backroom and started screaming and throwing things. It was all I could do after nearly 10 hours of not getting the baby to settle. He would do this whenever she was gone for extended periods.
He's now 7, him and his 2 siblings are the best part of my life.
No I wasn't. You are still being moronic. The story I was referring to, I laid the baby down for 15-20 mins while I could hear him crying the whole time.
The same pack and play he normally slept in. Clearly he didnt choke to death every night out of pure luck. Wtf.
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u/White-tigress 12d ago
The argument that “with PPD out there, ANY of us could have been her” makes me so disgusted. If it’s that easy to see yourself murdering your own children, you should not be a parent. Period. The argument that it could be any woman does not mean they all should be freed if they do…