1.) Andrea Yates was just a normal woman taking care of her famly until she gave birth to her fourth child Luke. Soon after giving birth to Luke, Andrea tried to commit suicide twice. The first time on an overdosage of her fathers perscriptions, and the second time tried to stab herself in the neck with a knife. She was admitted to Memorial Spring Shadows Glen hospital and was diagnosed with the disease Postpartum Psychosis. The doctors put her on medication and it helped tramendously and everything became normal again. Andrea dicided she wanted to have another child so was taken off of her medication. Soon after giving birth to her fifth child Mary. Seven months later she she drown all of her children because she thought satan was after them. She was sentenced to life in prison for drowning three of her five children and is not able for parole for forty years.
2.) I think, in her mind, she was trying to save her children. I do not think she wanted to kill her children, but i think she thought it was the only way to keep satan from them. So in a way she ment to kill them, but not in way of wanting to get rid of them.
3.) I think she was mentally insane at the time because she said she was hearing voices in her sleep and she thought she was bad for her children. From what i can tell she loved her children and to me if you love your children you should do whatever it takes to take care of them.
4.) Her husband seems like he cared for her, but to me if he truly cared for her health he should have kept her in that hospital until she was truly herself again. Instead he wanted her home. He also left her by herself knowing that she has tried to kill her twice and leaving her in the state she was in by herself with the five children. To me he should have taken off of work and stayed with her if he wanted her to stay at the house.
5.) I feel the reason that she killed her children is that she felt herself to be a bad parent. She would say that the devil was inside of her and was going to get her children. After two failed attemps at suicide I think that she felt her only way to pertect all five of her children from the devil was to kill them to keep the devil away from them.
6.) As a society I feel we can learn more from the disease and make sure you keep a watchful eye on the patients who have this disease and pay attention to what the patient really needs. I feel that the patient should talk to someone regularly and alert the family if the patient says anything that might should be dicussed within the family.
good job!
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