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I thought of the Andrea Yates case right away. It is so sad to imagine how the children must have felt in the final moments of their lives. I don’t know if I feel sympatric towards mothers who kill their children … I certainly have a heart for children who are abused, or suffer through life (and death) at the hands of depressive parents. In my years of early parenting I remember feeling overwhelmed at times, but I still have a hard time imagining how things could be so bad that killing one’s chi
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I think this had the potential to be a good book about post-partum depression but the author missed the mark. This is a modern day story of a woman with learning disablilities, who has depression issues. I keep asking myself, where was her "good" sister and her doctors, when this woman keeps getting pregnant (9 times) in 10 years of marriage. She miscarried 5 times. There were obvious issues but no one got this woman help. I might have liked this book better if it had been told from Simone's poi
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