[NYCVirago]

I'm sorry, I just see too many situations like this, men who are simultaneously consumed with trying to "make things better" for their emotionally unstable wives, and yet condemned by outside society as "oppressors."

Oh please. If he wanted to make things better for his wife, he could have started by not impregnating her again for a fourth and fifth time, after her documented suicide attempts.

[Illbay]

You're right. If he could have truly understood what was happening, if he had as clear a foresight as YOU have 20-20 hindsight, then he could have prevented ALL this. He had it COMPLETELY in his power.

Actually, the only thing that's clear from any of this is that you and the many like you commenting here in such utter, profound ignorance no absolutely NOTHING about dealing with a family member--not to mention a spouse--who is mentally ill.

And I think Andrea Yates will probably be found "not guilty by reason of insanity," and put away forever. And that's probably justice.

No, the only INJUSTICE I can see are noodniks like you who have all the reasoning capacity of a lynch-mob.