No, I’m not talking about Vietnam or that episode of Law and Order: SVU. I’m talking about all the women who kill their children, then go on to claim insanity, temporarily or otherwise. I think it’s a bunch of bullshit, personally, and that labeling any woman who would dare murder her own child automatically crazy is a very harmful legal ploy.
Let’ s think about it. Should a woman really get off for murder simply because it is assumed that all woman have some kind of maternal instinct that would keep them from doing so? I think not. I think people are forgetting that mothers are still human beings first and foremost, and that raising children can be the most nervewrecking, unpleasant, and difficult experiences of one’s life admist all of the supposed love and innocence and sunshine. When fathers kill their children, are they afforded all the same excuses? Maybe if these mothers had more help from the children’s fathers and less pressure to become mothers who never fail with their children, many of these deaths could be prevented.
