{"id":380,"date":"2002-03-28T12:33:07","date_gmt":"2002-03-28T19:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/03\/cathy-youngs-response\/"},"modified":"2002-03-28T12:33:07","modified_gmt":"2002-03-28T19:33:07","slug":"cathy-youngs-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/28\/cathy-youngs-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathy Young’s response"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— In response to my remarks on her article on Russell Yates, Cathy Young <\/a>says: <\/p>\n

\nI’ve seen some conflicting reports on how much time Andrea Yates was spending
\nalone with the kids just before the murders; there was some mention of the
\nfact that a decision had been made to increase that time and have Russell
\nYates’s mother come in somewhat later than she had been coming in previously.
\n


\nOne might also argue that when we’re talking about a mentally ill woman with
\nsuicidal tendencies being alone with five children, an hour a day is an
\nextended period of time — extended enough, certainly, for major trouble to
\nhappen. It would have been bad enough if Yates had slit her own throat in
\nthe children’s presence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She also mentions some hate-mail from fathers’ rights folks who express themselves abusively. Many in that movement are their own worst enemies. Dianna Thompson, director the ACFC<\/a>, wrote a longish letter to the Boston Globe critical of Cathy’s piece, blaming Andrea’s doctor for not reporting her to child protective services as a danger to the children:<\/p>\n

\nIt is also important to note that the professionals to whom Russell Yates
\ntook his wife, have a legally mandated duty to report any potential threat
\nto the children, to child protective services. As they did not do so, it can
\nonly be assumed that there was no imminent danger evident. Why then,
\nis the media holding Russell Yates to a higher standard than that of
\ntrained professionals?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s hard to predict the behavior of crazy people in any specific way, however — that’s what it means to be crazy — but you certainly wouldn’t HIRE somebody with a full-blown psychosis to look after your children, would you? That’s the point. As bad as public school and day care are, at least they don’t routinely murder their charges.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— In response to my remarks on her article on Russell Yates, Cathy Young says: I’ve seen some conflicting reports on how much time Andrea Yates was spending alone with the kids just before the murders; there was some mention of the fact that a decision had been made to increase that time and have … Continue reading “Cathy Young’s response”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-68","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}