From the brand new edition of Newsweek magazine, a story that accompanies
the cover story about the woman in Houston who killed all five of her
children:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/591651.asp

“In Britain, the Infanticide Act of 1938 allows women who kill their
offspring within the first 12 months to plead the lesser charge of
“infanticide” instead of murder. Such cases are extremely rare, but if a
woman can prove that “the balance of her mind” was disturbed by pregnancy,
childbirth or lactation, she may receive a much more lenient sentence,
including community service or even conditional discharge."

Sigh.  Perhaps if she had breastfed her children, she wouldn't have had five
children in 7 years, and she would have had normal post-partum horomones
circulating in her bloodstream, and life wouldn't have been so overwhelming.

Kathy Dettwyler

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