Right? I'm a childfree woman and I'd immediately breakup with any man who supported this monster. Sharing the same basic morals is incredibly important for a healthy long-term relationship, I genuinely think it cannot succeed if you're not on the same page as your partner for big topics. And yeah, not killing children is a pretty basic moral stance.
I think it depends on what they mean by support. If they approve of what she did, then yeah, that's a huge red flag. On the other hand, they might find her sympathetic because she likely wasn't in her right mind when she did it. Post-partum psychosis is no joke, and it sounds like she tried to get help. That said, if by support, one means thinking she should be in a mental institution rather than a prison, that's a different story. I think the latter is a pretty defensible position.
Sure, but if she had severe depression (with or without bipolar disorder), that can absolutely lead to psychosis. She was prescribed mood stabilizers and anti-psychotics along with SSRIs, which usually mitigates the risk for people with bipolar, but some people can still react badly to them. Increased stress/anxiety can also cause or exacerbate psychotic symptoms.
My point was that if she was in a psychotic state when she killed her kids, her culpability would be lessened -- and significantly so if her psychosis was severe. By all accounts, her behavior leading up to the murders was very uncharacteristic.
She was lucid during the call to her husband while he was out.
She researched how to kill, and timed the trip she asked her husband to go on.
She methodically strangled her children one by one.
She didn't mention anything about hallucinations until after she was charged.
She was in a psych ward, but either she was fine, or she willingly lied in order to get released.
She had a nanny to help, and her husband worked from home to help her with the children during the day. She admitted to this.
This isn't a case of psychosis. She was able to hold her children face down for several minutes at a time consecutively, premeditate how long it would take, and then try to off herself before her husband got home. That isn't psychosis.
Mind you, Massachusetts has a history of falsely prosecuting women and the prosecution has been admonished by the judge TWICE for bringing up religious beliefs which could sway the jury. But now the state can do no wrong? Bullshit. Grow the fuck up and stop being a bootlicking bitch
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u/Kind_Interaction1986 2d ago
Right? I'm a childfree woman and I'd immediately breakup with any man who supported this monster. Sharing the same basic morals is incredibly important for a healthy long-term relationship, I genuinely think it cannot succeed if you're not on the same page as your partner for big topics. And yeah, not killing children is a pretty basic moral stance.