Andrea Yates Killing Five Children Essay

Wow! That was the first word that came to my mind when I heard professor Idler talked about Andrea Yates killing her 5 children in 2001. This was the first time that I heard about it. Andrea was a motherhood who filled a bathtub with water. She then drowned her five children, one by one, in the bathtub. She laid the dead bodies of five-year old John, three-year-old Paul, two-year old Luke, and 6-month old Mary on her bed. She left her oldest, Noah, age 7, in the tub. She called the police and her husband asking for help. I still cannot find a reason on how can you kill your five children. It is still sad because I consider that Andrea had the perfect life that anybody wishes to have. She had a united family when she was younger, graduated with

She started for the first time to feel the consequences of the postpartum depression. She started hallucinating, had thoughts of a knife, stabbing someone, and seeing blood, but she decided to leave it secret. After she had her 4th child, she called her husband started asking for help, her husband did not know how to handle this situation and took her for a walk. I personally think that if depression is not taken care, it will get worst and worst over time. She had 5 kids and she started asking for help after she had her 4th children, which made me realized that she kept all of those problems on her for several years making her depression to go worst over all of this time. I consider that Andrea got into a situation where her mental problem got so intense that it was really tough to be able to handle it. In the video, one of examples that she demonstrated after being arrested of her postpartum depression was her hygiene; no shower, no underwear, bad smell. She was even not taking medication but acting like she was. The postpartum depression got so out of control that it did not let her think reasonably and just did not make her think about her family first nor about taking care of herself. All along her mental problem was

Woroniecki was an aggressive preacher. According to Woroniecki, not everybody can make it to heaven. In Andrea’s mind, this was one of the reasons of why she killed her 5 children. She said that the kids did not obey her or behave the way they should, according to God’s will. Andre felt very detached and alone from her family and her husband. All of that detachment from her husband and just being home taking care of the kids that made her focus on Woroniecki. By taking care of her 5 children and being in charge of her house made her feel stressful. In this case, I know how it feels to be in control on different kids and a house at the same time. I have 2 nephews and 1 niece, there are times where my mother goes to work and comes back at 11:30 pm and my sister comes home at 9:00 pm from work. All of that time the kids stay with me and when my nephews and my niece come from school I need have their lunch ready, help them with their homework, get their dinner ready, help them to take a shower, and taken them go to bed. After they go to bed, I need to clean my house with all the mess that they make at home. It is really tough because I have to talk to them every time they are not behaving or when they do not want to eat their lunch, etc… That also makes me