Mother in Duxbury murders her two kids (how much, houses)

[msRB311]

Im guessing she spends life in a an institution.

[brightdoglover]

If she gets court-ordered psychiatric medication (anti- psychotics) she might clear to the point of being viable in court.

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by brightdoglover

PPD is a level less than psychosis. No one is going to get a pass in the court system for depression. Psychosis is PPP, much worse, involving delusions and such. Still no pass but a reasonable argument in court.

I guess I'm really failing to understand the binary thinking here. It isn't difficult to be both angry and wanting punishment for a committing a horrible crime AND feeling some sympathy for someone that may have had a psychotic episode that resulted in tragedy (if that is what happened). They're not mutually exclusive feelings to have. It's not "string em up" vs "get a pass" in the real world, or it shouldn't be. That's simplistic thinking being applied to what is often a complex situation.

(This isn't directed at you Bright, just a general observation here I see a lot in crime speculation threads (which are odd in themselves))

[brightdoglover]

It's very complex. I don't know the Massachusetts iterations of "guilty but insane" etc. One poster kept saying that the woman will get a pass in court and I don't know that that's the case.

[Beachcomber4]

The GoFundMe has a message from the Dad, Patrick. Heartwrenching. But he speaks about his wife and forgiveness.

[msRB311]

I saw that. So sad. It hasn't even been a week. He sounds like an amazing husband and father

[brightdoglover]

It is for him to forgive, that's for sure.

[chicagoliz]

Originally Posted by Remy11

As far as having 3 kids, I have no idea if this is true, but I read somewhere that 3 kids is the new status symbol in the way that 2 kids used to be. (2 kids, white picket fence, blah, blah, blah) Basically, if you can afford 3 kids in these tough financial times, you've officially made it. Again, who really knows if there's any truth to that but I can kind of see it...

This idea strikes me as ludicrous. I've never heard of a high number of kids being a status symbol, except for in those crazy right-wing religious cults.

Originally Posted by msRB311

I also wonder how women had 5-8 kids on average just a few decades ago and it seems like people were for the most part able to manage better than today. There seemed to be less drama, also less people sharing feelings I suppose too. People could live on one income more easily back then which I think was huge.

It was not common to have 5-8 kids "a few decades ago." Even in the 1970s and 80s, if someone had 5 kids, that was very unusual and was a lot. Way more than typical. More like a century or more ago, when there was no birth control.

[brightdoglover]

I think back to the mostly Jewish street where I grew up, a suburban enclave in the 1950s-1960s. The only house with more than two kids were fervently Catholic.

[msRB311]

Originally Posted by chicagoliz

This idea strikes me as ludicrous. I've never heard of a high number of kids being a status symbol, except for in those crazy right-wing religious cults.




It was not common to have 5-8 kids "a few decades ago." Even in the 1970s and 80s, if someone had 5 kids, that was very unusual and was a lot. Way more than typical. More like a century or more ago, when there was no birth control.

Ok maybe I got the decade/century wrong.

On my son's sports team there are two families with 6 kids, one with 5. I'm like the odd ball with 2 kids.

Anyways, I guess that has nothing to do with this really other than I just wonder why they had 3 kids with all they had going on, but they did.