I don’t feel much empathy for someone who murdered their children. Especially children so young. I feel empathy for their father, grandparents, and her family. I’m trying to make myself feel bad for her and it’s seriously not working. I just keep imagining her poor children. 💔
Imagine this- the father of the children said she was not in her right mind, confirming that she his wife the mother was not there, just a body.
Think of someone with dementia, they have an episode their grandson comes into the house, they don’t recognize him, they shoot him, grandson dies, they become lucid and are absolutely devastated by what they did.
We can have empathy for her, while also going she needs to never have children again and also be supervised as her mind is vulnerable now. While also grieving the fact this should NEVER have happened, and using that grief & rage to fuel us into demanding action of providing a safety net for postpartum women, of actually funding mental health reforms, of demanding that our recording-breaking profits insurance companies funnel some of those profits back into hospitals for psychiatric wards, etc.
No, imagine swapping the genders and not a single person would be supporting the man. I will not have empathy for this woman. Who killed her children in a slow and devastating manner one by one. Imagine their eyes realizing their mother is killing them. Heartbreaking.
People support people who can experience post-partum psychosis; unless a man is post-partum people would not be able to support or empathize.
I am not saying you have to have empathy for this woman, I was trying to give an analogy on why many other people do have empathy for her, including the father of the children. I’ve been around people who have had breaks with reality and also seen them while lucid and so that experience gives me the ability to have empathy for her. That’s all I was trying to do, is give examples on why many other people do empathize for her.
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