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Most mothers know something of the mental slipperiness that can come with a new baby. Up to three-quarters of them experience some mild form of postpartum "blues"--a sense of anxiety and defeat that usually fades in a few days. About 10% to 15% experience actual depression. But in 1 of every 1,000 births, the mother develops what is called postpartum psychosis, in which she breaks from reality, in rare cases becoming violent. Andrea told police she first thought of killing her children months before, convinced that she was a bad mother who had permanently damaged them, according...
...glimpses I've gotten of Rusty and Andrea Yates make me think of Hannah Arendt's famous phrase "the banality of evil." Arendt's personification of such evil was Adolph Eichmann, the orderly and seemingly mild-mannered Nazi bureaucrat who helped orchestrate the killing of millions. The Yates's, too, in their own way, seemed somehow deeply and disturbingly ordinary...
...came to the emergency room, in such a panic, I said, 'Look, this is all we want from you. We don't want you to do any sensationalized press and we want you to move the animal into quarantine, because if what you said is true, that he's mild mannered, we need to find out if it's a medical reason why it's not mild mannered today. We need you to keep this animal in quarantine for the duration of Phil's recovery in case something should happen to him so we have access to blood tests...
...They didn't say to us before we went in the cage, p.s. this thing's carnivorous and even though it's mild mannered, there's a certain danger. They put us in there with this lovely Mr. Rogers the zookeeper and left us alone in this reptile house with no help. No nothing, and kids with their faces pressed up against the glass. If they're going to put us in the cage with something so dangerous, they shouldn't have had kids standing around the glass being able to be distracting or whatever could've happened. They should...
...wouldn't put someone in a cage with a tiger and go, oh he's just mild mannered. You would still have the tiger wrangler. Something. Here's a pair of knee high boots with a steel thing. Not like swoop around here so we can get a better photo and pretending that it nipped him on the toe. If they don't spend some of all of this money they have quadrupled for some kind educational program so they can educate the zookeepers about how to handle situations, I just can't even imagine what to say next...