Love Or Hate: What´s Postpartum Depression?

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There is a major problem that has caused our children to be executed at an alarming rate. The thought of children gives most mothers a warm and loving feeling but, what if something interferes with these maternal instincts and results in the death of a child. The mother who brought them into this world is the same one who takes them out. Postpartum Depression is real and is now a major factor in the death of children at the hands of their mothers. Society must take a closer look at this unsettling occurrence in order to bring about a solution.

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