2006-08-24 05:00:15 · 11 answers · asked by Put_ya_mitts_up 4 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
I Would say yes. Death Penalty
2006-08-24 05:03:35 · answer #1 · answered by vanman8u 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's rather difficult for males to get the type of post partum depression that besets females that Yates is professing to have caused her temporary insanity. Especially since males can't have babies.
But then again, I'm not sure I completely buy into the level of depression that affected Yates with out putting some blame on Mr Yates who obviously knew from previous births that this was a problem yet continued to pursue more children and left Mrs Yates to deal the depression and issues herself.
Personnaly I think Mr. Yates should have been on trial for child indangerment.
IMHO
2006-08-24 12:05:38 · answer #2 · answered by wrkey 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There is something terribly wrong when a loving, doting mother commits such a horrible act. There is also something terribly wrong when the medical community fails to help her.
Hindsight is 20/20 and I do not like to judge, but if Mr. Yates had been more proactive in ensuring his wife's medical care and less in procreating, maybe this could have turned out differently, but I am sure he lives with this everyday. Maybe we as a society can learn from it.
2006-08-24 14:49:14 · answer #3 · answered by Annie R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question is basically trying to compare apples to oranges and you just can't do it. Perhaps you should ask if males receive harsher punishment than females and the answer to that is usually yes.
But to ask if a man who has postpartum depression after having several children with a woman who emotionally beats him down would behave in the same way and receive the same punishment as a female - well, that just doesn't make sense, now does it?
2006-08-24 14:08:42 · answer #4 · answered by Kate 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that what she did was completely awful! There are no words to express how I feel about the evil that lives inside that woman, she knew what she was doing... insanity my a$s! If she wasn't aware that what she was doing was wrong, why would she wait till her husband went to work to do it? Or why did she call 911 after she killed them if it was to "save them"? Ugh, that woman deserves to be in prison, if not something worse. As for your question, I don't know if it would have made a difference it she was born a man, I think either way, the jury is completely at fault for this one!
2006-08-24 12:07:31 · answer #5 · answered by pdanielleh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She should have been sent to prison and given the death penalty! If she is "legally insane" because she is a murderer, then does that make everyone else in prison for murder "legally insane". I don't understand the difference between legally insane and just plain evil.
To answer your question, yeah had it been a male he would have probably been sent to prison instead of the looney bin.
2006-08-24 12:08:17 · answer #6 · answered by Special Ethel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only God knows the answer to a question like this.....It is not up to us to judge......It is obvious that this woman is sick......People do not understand or know enough about mental illness....I feel that if Andrea Yates, was a man, he/she would have gotten the same treatment if it was proven he was mentally ill also....
2006-08-24 14:34:59 · answer #7 · answered by Donna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a man did what Andrea Yates did to her children, he would be sentenced to death. The outcome of this trial was outrageous!
2006-08-24 12:05:48 · answer #8 · answered by EDDie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes because he wouldn't of had post pardom depression since he wouldn't of been the one to give birth...but if he was proven mentally ill and the jury believed an insanity defense then maybe not.
2006-08-24 12:28:22 · answer #9 · answered by tweetz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what kind of question is that? of course.
2006-08-24 12:08:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋