News Article related to Stress

What drives a mom to kill?
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN
August 18, 2010
www.cnn.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/18/sc.mother.children.psychology/index.html?iref=allsearch#fbid=AFzda3WLuQm&wom=false

Shaquan Duley, a 29 unemployed Orangeburg (South Carolina) resident, is accused of killing her two children by suffocating them. Duley has admitted to the crimes, stating that she had suffocated her two children, strapped their corpses onto the cars and left the car to plunge into the lake. According to Duley, She and her mother had an argument regarding the state of two children, and Duley has been known to have been put under stress by her mother and the community to support for her children. As the article says, Duley was unemployed, a single mother, and received considerable stress from life.

This article shows that a build-up of stress can eventually lead to horrible outcomes, such as a mother killing her own children. According to the article, many mothers who murder their own children are usually in neglected, low-income classes in which they are easier to get pressured. Duley was living with her mother, and because both were unemployed, they lacked the means to support their family. Constantly being told that she wasn't taking care of her children, Duley was stressed to a level that she wanted to get rid of her children and free herself, and that's when she carried the murder out. Duley is regretting what she has done, but being sad won't bring back her already-dead children.

This article was shocking to me because I personally think that parents prioritize their children first, but this article contradicted me. All parents feel love for their children, and the incidence proved to me that stress is something far more deadly than what I had thought of earlier. Stress and depression can trigger even the most loving parents to make the wrong decision, and despite the fact that I've never been so stressed as to think of killing other people, this article made me feel that I should find effective methods to deal with stress.