Posted by Acheick on February 28, 2002 at 16:24:44:
Have you been following the Andrea Yates murder trial? The one who drowned her kids in the bathtub? I read the story in time magazine which did an extensive study on the whole happening. You know, it makes me mad. Andrea Yates was already a very troubled woman with serious delusions and mental illness. Her husband and the religious people around her did not do what was right for her. Her husband even made the statement after the murder that she yielded to the devil. What a midievel way of looking at things. I find it deplorable that the husband would take his wife off of birth control so they could have more children because she seemed to be doing better. For God's sake, give the woman a rest! She'd been suicidal before, she was on heavy medication and I mean heavy. She did not need the added stress of another life to be responsible for. Then, this stupid evangelist she got hooked up with feeds her already delicate psyche with religious shlop, telling her that women have to suffer because of Eve's sin and that bad children come from bad mothers (father is not involved in this?). This fed into her delusional state. Apparently, she studied the bible for hours and it looks to me like the perfect case of trying to be the perfect mother, the perfect everything and because she was delusional and no one can be perfect, she decided to put her children out of the misery of having her for a mother. I find this so appalling and at the same time reminds me so much of the mentality in the F. I think Russel Yates should be held equally accountable.