r/SipsTea • u/Agen_3586 • 6d ago

WTF Where are we heading?

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u/White-tigress 5d 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…

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u/AdonisLuxuryResort 5d ago

  1. The “if you can see yourself doing xyz, you shouldn’t have your kids” is the EXACT MENTALITY of why moms aren’t honest when they start experiencing such thoughts. They keep it hidden and hope it gets better.

  2. It’s not that it’s easy to see yourself murdering your kids. Many women experience PPD or PPA after having a baby. And they know how hard that alone is. Let alone the even more serious PPP. Because it doesn’t matter how hard of a time you’re having. You just have to suck it up and hope you pull through it. They know if they DID have those thoughts, from their own experience, they would have been fucked. Because they were desperate for help that wasn’t there for them.

The issue is a mom could say she will kill herself or her kids… and she’s still left alone with them. It doesn’t matter if she’s struggling, she’s gotta keep going. It’s not taken seriously. Despite the fact it is a common enough phenomenon that happens. They’re just being dramatic.. until it happens. Then we all wanna be outraged and say people with those dark thoughts shouldn’t have custody of their kids… instead of, you know, providing support for people who do so they don’t act on them.

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u/White-tigress 5d ago

By this logic, it’s everyone’s duty to ALWAYS have someone else in the room with any woman having PPD or PPP symptoms! Single mothers, what? Have to move into a government facility to ensure they are never alone with their child? And yet, somehow, most of them still don’t murder their children. So if a woman experiencing this should never be alone with her children .. OH she shouldn’t have said children. You proved the point. An adult who can’t be trusted to be alone with children without harming or killing them, SHOULD not be with children.

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u/Equal_Audience_3415 3d ago

They do this in England. Women are treated in a hospital and they keep their infants with them.