December 21st, 2007
The State Of Mothethood In America
A writer once wrote, “No nation is greater than its mothers, for they are the makers of men” But, when I turn on my television and see the numbers of mothers who are killing their children I must ask myself, “What drives a mother to point of killing her own child?” “What is it in our society that makes a mother feel so desperate, so alone, that she believes her only recourse is the death of herself and her children?” Andrea Yates, who killed her five children; Dee Etta Perez, who shot her three children; Deanna Lany, who beat her two sons; Lisa Ann Diaz who drowned her daughters; Dena Schlosser, who fatally severed her daughters arms; and now Gilberta Estrada, who hung herself and her children. Not to mention the countless number of babies that are born and left in dumpsters even with the passing of a new law that says they can leave them in safe places and receive no repercussions.