Psychology

There is a surprising increase in the number of women who are murdering their own children and molesting children.  Women who murder their own children do not have a specific profile or outward appearance which would make it easier to identify these individuals.  Post partum conditions such as depression or psychosis offer some explanation to the heinous behaviors.  Women who develop post partum psychosis have a 4 chance of killing their own child or children according to Natasha Mitchell, host of All in the Mind.  Women who develop post partum depression are more likely to become suicidal.  Women who sexually abuse children experience some form of a psychotic break.  Some women are pre-disposed to sexually abuse because they were sexually abused as children.  The woman sex offender is more than socially competent, but she becomes fixated sexually.  Chemical treatments with SSRIs and Prozac are currently being used in conjunction with CBT with a focus on desensitization.
   
The female sex offender fits into the Cognitive theory of abnormal psychology.  This is especially true if the female was also abused as a child.  This deviated form of classical conditioning requires the therapist to retrain the female in pertinent areas of response with regard to specific feelings.  Females who murder their own children fall into the Psychodynamic theory.  The Psychodynamic Theory focuses on past experiences which influence current behaviors.  Freud believed that an event could be experienced as a child, and it could be stored in the subconscious forever.  This repressed memory could have a devastating effect on the individuals ability to function as an adult within society.
   
These conditions could incite fear in women who are of childbearing years.  One never knows how things will turn out post delivery.  Husbands should be educated as to what behaviors to watch out for after their wives give birth.  One can never be too careful these days.