Nope, and you just answered your own question. We, as mothers cannot fathom how anyone can murder their own children. When we read about stories like this, we are genuinely confused and therefore suspect mental illness or a nervous breakdown.
Two examples: September 8, 2001. A Sacramento man tried to kill his five children, succeeding in killing three of them, he then immediately committed suicide. Did you make a post in here, or did any woman, asking for prayers for the him and the victims, or offering the "mental illness/ whacked" excuse for him? Example # 2: April 24, 2003; a young man killed his three children and then immediately killed himself. Again, where were the all the voices of empathy, sympathy, and compassion for his being "whacked"?
First of all, I didn't see either article you mentioned. Contrary to popular belief, I don't actually live on freerepublic. Since you are so emotionally involved with this topic, you should investigate the psychological and physiological differences between men and women. I'd venture a guess about your two examples...the mother was planning to leave the man. Am I right? Damn skippy it's whacked! Like I said earlier, we don't have all the facts about why that woman jumped off the bridge.
Female murderers are being excused today by other women via the "abuse excuse", (my husband was a bad man, he hurt me and he deserved to be murdered); or by the "whacked" excuse, (she had post partum blues, her meds were the wrong ones, nobody listened to her, yadda yadda yadda). I'm not buying any of this stuff. Murder is murder, if there's compassion and mercy due to extenuating cirstances, then it's either for everyone, (male and female), or it a phoney feminist charade that seeks to excuse cold blooded killers.
My, my, my....you really do have an axe to grind. For your information, I am not a feminist. I am a mother, and as many times as I'm tempted to cheerfully wring my kids necks, I won't. Don't make fun of postpartum depression. In fact it's called postpartum psychosis when it gets to the point that some woman thinks her baby is posessed by the devil...or whatever is in her head. Postpartum depression is caused by hormonal havoc. We have hormones that help us get pregnant; we have hormones that help us carry that pregnancy to term. We have hormones that kick in when it's time for the baby to be born. Ever stop to think about why we get cranky around "that time of the month"? It's the hormones! When these hormones are, shall we say colliding with one another, we get "the baby blues". If we're lucky, that's all we get.
Hopefully this little biology lesson has clarified a couple of things for you. Have a nice day.
Both stories were front page material in all major newspapers, FOX News, CNN and your local 6:00 News. I guess we just see what we want to see, eh?
"Since you are so emotionally involved with this topic, you should investigate the psychological and physiological differences between men and women. I'd venture a guess about your two examples...the mother was planning to leave the man. Am I right?"
You know what they say about judgement prior to investigation don't you? It's called prejudice, the prerequisite for all feminists. Thanks for proving my point for me dear.
(a).Woman kills children and self; feminist conclusion = she's whacko.
(b). Man kills children and self; feminist conclusion = he was jilted.
I hope you're beginning to see your built-in prejudices and fermenting feminism by now. :o)
P.S. Do you think the 1.5 million abortions each year in America that women have, (and fight tooth-and-nail to keep legal), are responsible for some of this child killing going on all over America these days? There has got to be some reason behind all these mothers killing their children. They drown them, abandon them to the elements, suffocate them; it's like the new national sport. :o(
I'm beginning to think that some women who make posts in here are possessed by the devil. Until the advent of abortion, (the pillar and foundation of feminism), children were considered to be the greatest blessings from God. And God's blessings do not bring with them Satan or psychosis. This is why the traditional family was always so large. Post partum psychosis my arse, you're trying to save these wretched killers with psychobabble; chldren are God's gift to the world, and God doesn't attach demons or mental illness with their birth - in fact, quite the opposite. Jesus told us: "Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. "Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me; but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea"., (Mathew 18: 1 - 6).
I suppose next you are going to tell me that homosexual perverts were born that way and can't help themselves.