This assignment involves reading the article on Andrea Yates who was suffering from severe mental health issues and murdered her children. As you read the article, reflect on the following questions:
Read this article on Andrea Yates:
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At what point does personal responsibility stop or start, do we treat those with mental illness like everyone else?
2. Is it fair to jail individuals with mental illness with other prisoners?
3. How do we differentiate a criminal mind from a person with mental illness?
4. Andrea Yates married a highly religious man.
At his insistence, they lived in a trailer and planned on having as many children as God gave them.
Ms. Yates was suffering from such severe post-partum depression that her gynecologist recommended to her and her husband that they stop having children and go on birth control (which he refused to do). She home schooled her children (though she was overwhelmed and suffering from severe depression) because her husband wanted that. At what point does his responsibility start?
Requirements: 250 to 275 words | .doc file