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Quote by: PatrickHenry Are you opposed to or do you favor psychiatric treatment instead of prison for the mentally disturbed mom who kills her children? |
Difficult question. However..given that these women will not be allowed to be parents again, I see no reason for me to pay for rehabilitation.
In the case of someone like Mary Kay Letourneau who was obviously going to be released, and given that the victim did not see her as a perpetrator, I say it was rediculous to think that simply locking her away for a while would change her view. Just like locking a pedophile away without some sort of serious mental health program does not change their preference for children when they are released. Reoffense rates are staggering. Psychologically speaking, it probably only emboldened the pair with the whole *us against the world* mentallity.
On that same note, I do not believe that this is a *curable* problem. If at any time these mothers thought they were justified, which they obviously did, then so what if they come to see they were wrong? How mentally subordinant must one be to give over the life of their children to someone elses belief? How will that not carry over to everything else they encounter in life? I don't believe that we can undo that persons hardwired mentality. The inability to reason for themselves is not something I see as a feasibly *curable* disorder.