Psychological_&_Biological_Interpretations_For_Filicide

Psychological & Biological Interpretations For Filicide Psychological and Biological Interpretations for Filicide The objective of this paper is to summarize the articles “Mom Held in Killing 5 Kids,” “5 Kids Found in Clear Lake,” and “Not Without Precedent,” summarize the author’s conclusions and arguments, discuss personal persuasion or lack of persuasion concerning the author’s arguments, and lastly to interpret the articles and arguments from that of a psychologist and biologist’s point of view concerning the deviant act of filicide. In 1999, Andrea Pia Yates was charged with the deaths of her five children. She drowned them at home in the bathtub. She openly admitted, “She (I) had killed her (my) kids”(Glenn, Rendon, & Bernstein, 2001:1). Later she was accused of capitol murder-multiple accounts and if the court finds her guilty she could possibly receive the death penalty. Yates’ husband, Russell E. Yates told police that she had been treated for postpartum depression for the last two years. He also told police that he would frequently have to “check on her well-being”(Glenn, Rendon, & Bernstein, 2001:2). Previously to this incident, Yates had tried to take her own life. The authors conclude their articles by exaggerating the disbelief that Yates had committed this crime, yates, deviance, biological, yates’, behavior, within, filicide, children, psychological, new, killing, explanation, depression, way, reality, postpartum, online, mother, kids, individual, deviant, case, available, arguments, actions, upon, theory, source, solution, public, possibly, point, personality, people