By Cheryl L. Meyer
ISBN-10: 0814757022
ISBN-13: 9780814757024
ISBN-10: 0814762190
ISBN-13: 9780814762196
Winner of the 2008 remarkable booklet Award through the Academy of felony Justice SciencesMichelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer don’t write for information magazines or prime-time investigative tv indicates, however the tales they inform carry an identical fascination. whilst moms Kill is compelling. In a transparent, direct style the authors recount what they've got discovered from interviewing ladies imprisoned for killing their kids. Readers should be surprised and outraged—as a lot through the violence the ladies have persevered of their personal lives as through the violence they engaged in—but they're going to even be expert or even enlightened.Oberman and Meyer are major experts on their topic. Their 2001 ebook, moms Who Kill Their kids, drew from 1000s of newspaper articles in addition to from scientific and social technology journals to suggest a finished typology of maternal filicide. In that very same yr, pushed by means of a wish to attempt their typology—and to higher comprehend child-killing ladies not only as varieties yet as individuals—Oberman and Meyer started interviewing ladies who have been incarcerated for the crime. After engaging in long, face-to-face interviews with 40 legal inmates, they back and chosen 8 ladies to talk with at even better size. This new ebook starts off with those tales, stated within the matter-of-fact phrases of the inmates themselves.There are collective topics that emerge from those person bills, together with histories of relentless interpersonal violence, stricken relationships with mom and dad (particularly with mothers), twisted notions of romantic love, and deep conflicts approximately motherhood. those issues constitution the books total narrative, which additionally comprises an insightful exam of the social and institutional platforms that experience failed those girls. Neither the moms nor the authors supply those tales as excuses for those crimes.
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Patty describes that period in her life without bitterness. Within a matter of months, she found herself caring for her own three children — a newborn and her two- and three-year-old sons — as well as for her new baby brother. In spite of the enormous challenge posed by this situation, she did not start “drinking or drugging,” as she put it, until she was twenty-two years old — four or five years later. That, as she describes it, was the beginning of much of the trouble in her relationships with her children, as well as with their fathers.
She put me in some place at Ohio State University where I used to get shots a lot and I couldn’t function. I was dizzy and I ran into walls. My sister remembers coming to visit me; . . my mom denies that I was drugged at all, but I remember it. I think I was there for about a month. ” In several cases, the women described being emotionally, and in some cases, literally abandoned by their mothers. One of the women with whom 28 “She’s the World to Me” we spoke was abandoned by her mother at eighteen months.
She wasn’t your average baby,” she said. “She didn’t sit up, wasn’t mobile, and didn’t cry. ” Marlene seldom referred to Dakota by name, and she adamantly denied allegations by the state that Dakota died from severe neglect, let alone from any intentional harm on her part. “I did not cause harm to the child purposely or even accidentally,” she said. Patty Patty describes her childhood as chaotic. ” She became pregnant in seventh grade, had her first child when she was fourteen, her second at fifteen, a miscarriage at sixteen, and her third child at seventeen.