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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reaction shouldn't be blaming. It should be, how horrific. [/quote]

👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽 This sentiment shall only be used for affluent white women.[/quote]

Black women get PPD too, you know. [/quote]

I’m quite aware. I’m also aware that Black women do not get the benefit of compassion and sympathy and forgiveness in similar situations.[/quote]

I mean, I'm trying to even think of a comparable case. I don't think I would respond any differently.[/quote]

https://chicagodefender.com/postpartum-depression-and-the-stigma-of-the-strong-black-woman/[/quote]

^^Theres more, but here’s a snippet. Women like Aleah Newell get my sympathy.

[quote][i]Last week Aleah Newell, age 20, was charged with killing her 2-year-old son Johntavious Newell, and her 7-month-old son Ameer Newell. In addition to those charges, Newell also was charged with the attempted murder of her 70-year-old grandfather, Cordell Walker. Newell stabbed her infant son and placed him in a bathtub of scalding water. She proceeded to cut the screen of the 11th-floor window open and threw her 2-year-old toddler out of the window. Newell jumped out afterward, with hopes of committing suicide. However, she survived the fall. Tragically, her toddler did not. A week before these heinous acts, Newell asked for help. Women at the Shield of Hope shelter said Newell begged the staff to take her children because she could not care for them on her own. In response to Newell’s pleas, the shelter told her she had to “do it on her own.” Newell also asked her mother to care for her children so that she could get her life together. Newell’s mother said that she tried to attempt suicide during the summer of 2019, and took medication for an unspecified mood disorder. Newell also had a brother who committed suicide in 2017.

African-American women like Newell, are at higher risk for postpartum depression; however, they are less likely to get the help that they need. A few reasons are, minority women are economically at a disadvantage, and there is implicit bias in postpartum care for Black women by a few medical providers and limited access to quality medical care.[/i] [/quote][/quote]

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