Forgive mom who killed disabled child?

[Squinch]

1. I agree that she should not be paroled for killing her child, but I disagree

with your equating the situation to one in which a mother killed a child for being POC or LGBT.

When we talk about disabilities, we cannot discount the catastrophic effect that a profoundly disabled child will often have on a family. While nothing explains or mitigates the horror of her murder of her son, it sounds like it was a foregone conclusion that this teen mother from an abusive home herself didn't have the ability to care for that boy.

None of us who has not experienced it can understand the constant, back breaking, mind numbing, future demolishing demands that are placed on mothers of profoundly disabled children (and it is often mothers alone, because statistically the disability puts such strains on the marriage that the parents divorce.) We have no system that assists them in caring for that child.

Because of my profession, I know many such mothers. They are heroes and I can't begin to understand how they do what they do. There is no surprise that an abused teen couldn't hack it.