How could a mother ever even consider killing her children, it was completely unimaginable. The numerous examples of mothers killing their children like Yates, quickly developed an awareness of this problematic deviance.
Psychologists", just like any other doctor follow certain guidelines that correlate their practice to the explanations of reality. A psychologist would sit and analyze Yates" case with peculiar interest towards the source of this deviance. They would then conclude that the source must reside somewhere within Yates herself. Possibly, they would attribute this case to Yates" having a personality imbalance or dysfunction. Then the personality imbalance would be analyzed and they may discover that, her family and society as a child unsuccessfully socialized her. This fact may be relevant in identifying that unsuccessful socialization results in a lack of control over behavior, which Yates may have not actually internalized and interpreted in her own mind and known environment that the right thing to do would be to kill her children so that they would not have to suffer perceived harmfulness in her and their environment. To agree with this theory the article emphasizes her lack of public socialization or isolation from reality, which may have contributed to her personal decision to justify killing her children. Yates had physically segregated her self from outsiders and the public, which greatly impacted her decisions. The mental states and reaction of extreme behavior described greatly depict a picture of an individual who suffers greatly from the illness of chronic postpartum depression. The solution to this problem is to treat Yates through therapy or through the use of medical means, which may entail attending to the potential risk factor that the new achieved role of mother, will potentially conflict with previous ascribed or achieved roles that the new mother is already expected to perform the duties of.