The Left Wing Porch Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Left Wing Porch

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: Rambi who wrote (5014)	7/5/2001 4:45:22 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) of 6089

The issue of Andrea Yates' husband is troublesome to me as well. We do know that PPD gets worse with each successive pregnancy and I feel he was morally (though not legally) responsible for the safety of his children and wife when it became apparent she was psychotic. I'd like to know more about this type of PPD: what the incidence of violent behavior is, toward either the self (on the part of the mother) or the children. I'll try to dig up more in the coming days and post it here. I have had experience with women who were hospitalized for depression and saw that, pretty much to a person, their relationships with their husbands were really out of whack at the time. A number of patients' husbands were furious with them. Some were served with divorce papers while hospitalized. Others' husbands had assumed the role of caregiver to both wife and children. Whether this happened before the depression, concurrent with it, or as a result, was impossible to figure. But surely the emotional balance in a marriage when one partner is severly compromised gets way off kilter.

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next